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| Stromboli explosions under a Harvest Moon. |
Hephaestus is still forging Hellenic bronze
Creating caldera flames in an autumnal sky
The Moon rising full above the waves
In memorial salute for gladiators long ago about to die.
We watch dolphins chase amberjack in and out the blue water
Did Argonauts or Odysseus once row in these warm waves?
In pursuit of a golden fleece or lost on the way home to Penelope.
Did Plato chase reality's shadows in lava bright volcanic caves?
One flight away are home, friends and family.
But further away still are planets, stars and moon.
Sagittarius the horseman and Scorpius with bright red Antares.
Each will roll and dip in turn below our horizon soon
It seems to us on our fast moving boat
That tonight all times, present and past
Have come together in the moonlight
Under just one mast.
George Roberts - 'Cheerful doggerel' September 2026.
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