Polloscope Tanka

Constellations translated into poetry weekly.

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Polloscope, Chapter 267: With the navigation tools known as the polloscopes returned to Argo by mysterious means, Virgo watches her old vessel sail away into the cosmos.

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sailing at twilight
Atalanta and Chiron
venture out to war
Lapiths frenzy in chaos
centaur blood spills on the ground

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shade of the oak tree
thriving in the elements
garden of wisdom
the six sisters missing one
Andromeda chasing stars

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one child of lightning
one child of Tyndareus
nature’s protectors
Argo will be delivered
to Table Mountain’s summit

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Spaceburger 🍔

Gomez's Hamburger shows a Sun-like star near the end of its life, casting off layers of gas and dust. The "buns" are light reflecting off dust, and the "patty" is the dark band of dust in the middle.

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peek at Medusa
Asclepius stalks sisters
to the temple stairs
dark necromancy at work
twisting them into gorgons

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Fear of the centaurs
falling apart from within
a long-winded war
Chiron keeps his sister safe
deep within Virgo’s garden

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Polloscope, Chapter 266: Chiron’s health takes a turn for the worse while he instructs Polly to perform a life-saving surgery on the scorpion.

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cast off mortal shells
siblings share eternal life
unto forever
Castor’s Spartan spirit thrives
Polly swimming with two swans

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generous Chiron
offering the elements
with all their wisdom
his one regretful lesson
instructing Asclepius

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strange to think we’re
just temporary travellers
on this ball of rock
never finishing what he began
an old poet’s life-bells chime

Fatma Zohra Habis

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Gemini seeking
peaceful dominion on earth
for all animals
there is always room on deck
the prize of community

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Polloscope, Chapter 265: Aquarius and Castor sail the Maiden one last time. Virgo repairs Argo’s atmosphere before departing from the dissolving translation of Mainalos.

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stars like broken glass
glitter in dark midnight skies
Andromeda’s eyes
forever face the cosmos
within and without the earth

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in Argo’s garden
the bull naps beside the ram
every flower grows
weeded by the gemini
centaur human alliance

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through cosmic debris
the Argo Navis sails on
to Andromeda
glittering elliptical
marks the map for voyagers

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the Sculptor’s true love
a chisel with good blueprints
to build a good world
Auriga watching the goats
Chiron weeding elements

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Polloscope, Chapter 264: Threatened by Atalanta’s mad scouts, Terra shifts the tide of the battleground while Andromeda calls on oceanic aid with her lyre.

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sisters of wisdom
foresee a desert rainstorm
where their tree does grow
someday the oak of Charles
will rise above tattered crowns

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Polloscope, Chapter 263: Driven mad by the serpent’s power, Atalanta’s scouts stand between Archer and Ophiuchus.

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