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Written by Lisa Jain Thompson
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Saturday, 27 June 2009 22:00 |
The StarPoet Newsletter
Vol. X, No. XXVI (June 28, 2009 C.E.) |
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| Copyright © Lisa Jain Thompson 1948-2009. Back issues are in the Newsletter Section of the StarPoet website. Visit my contact page and get in touch. |
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Gone gone gone. June has up and gone. Come Saturday next is the Fourth and The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united STATES OF AMERICA in Congress, July 4, 1776.. |
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A cool humid breeze
Lowers the temperature only slightly,
Refreshes a body still tired from work,
Gives the poet difficulty
As she tries to describe it;
Still, all and all,
We are better
For this indescript bit of wind
As is our muggy afternoon
Which would otherwise
Have us cursing the gods. |
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Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2009 CE |
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Written by Lisa Jain Thompson
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Saturday, 20 June 2009 22:00 |
The StarPoet Newsletter
Vol. X, No. XXV (June 21, 2009 C.E.) |
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| Copyright © Lisa Jain Thompson 1948-2009. Back issues are in the Newsletter Section of the StarPoet website. Visit my contact page and get in touch. |
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Solstice right here someplace. Summer. Longest days and all that. Revolution in Iran, Insanity in Korea, and the President ......? He's busy play monopoly with our economy. |
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Some planets take
A thousand days
Between one solstice
And the next
Five thousand years
Around their light bearer
Their children born and buried
Between the solstices
Give thanks and celebrate
Our skies are filled with Sol |
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Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2009 CE |
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Fiction -
XenErotica
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Written by Lisa Jain Thompson
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Sunday, 10 May 2009 10:30 |
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under 18 not admitted
proceed at your own risk
Windshift
By Lisa Jain Thompson
© 1998 & 2009
The wind shifted and the campfire smoke drifted out to the trees where the Warrior Princess was strung. Her lungs convulsed her tired naked body into wakefulness. As the dark fumes burned her half-opened eyes, she struggled to a rasp:
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Prose -
Global Warning
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Written by Lisa Jain Thompson
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 09:08 |
 Fairfax, VA, USA. I am not a Republican or a Democrat, a Liberal or a Conservative, a Believer or a Non-Believer, nor am I White, Brown, Black, Red, Yellow, Pink or Green. I am an American, a bipedal primate living on the Northern Continent in the Western Hemisphere of a small blue planet we have named Earth [N1]: all other classifications pale before this fact.
I am the product of the 230 year old American Revolution and the six to seven million years of primate evolution that separate Homo Sapiens from our closest living relatives the chimpanzees. [N2] An American, one among many equals, born with the inalienable right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. [N3]
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Written by Lisa Jain Thompson & Father Lucian J. Kemble O. F. M.
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 21:00 |
 Fairfax, VA, USA.Father Lucian J. Kemble [N1], a Franciscan Friar, was a friend and my sometimes confessor. [N2] A world class amateur astronomer, he was the discoverer of Kemble’s Cascade, an asterism [N3] located in the constellation Camelopardalis. Luc described it as "a beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling from the northwest down to the open cluster NGC 1502 that he had discovered while sweeping the sky with a pair of 7x35 binoculars in Canada.
Father Luc was an excellent writer whether he was explaining science, discussing the world he saw around us, or just corresponding with a friend, signing many of his emails as Lamplighter.
I treasured the emails Luc and I exchanged on subjects ranging from astronomy and science to theology and philosophy and poetry and canon law.
Father Luc often talked about the subtlety of nature, the beauty of small things that in the rush of today’s society we often overlook. He worried that many beginning amateur astronomers would turn away from the actual night sky when the Milky Way our eyes see naturally turns out not to be as colorful as the photoshopped images that are published in magazines and online.
Father Luc does not need me to paraphrase him. Please read on.
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Written by Lisa Jain Thompson & Father Lucian J. Kemble O. F. M.
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 19:00 |
 Springfield, VA, USA. I consider this article a collaboration with Lucian Kemble O.F.M. (1922-1999).
I met Luc on line, a relationship that started with membership in the Royal Astronomical Society, Canada (RASC). Besides our mutual interest in astronomy (he was the person who identified the asterism [N1] known as Kemble's Cascade), we both were gay: he a gay priest to my lesbian HBS.
Before Luc died in 1999 at age 77, we spent many long hours on line discussing theology, astronomy, and the current Pope Benedict VI, then Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith.
Luc was my confessor (as much as an agnostic Catholic can confess) and no subject was out of bounds.
We couldn't avoid our sexuality and the Church's objection to same-sex marriage.
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