POEM #15- QUANTIFIABLE

By ESO Yuri Beletsky from Wikimedia Commons, via Mary Lee Hahn, Year of Reading

Yet another amazing photoprompt from the ever amazing Mary Lee Hahn. It's a laser beam, shot from a very large telescope (VLT- and yes, that's really what it's called), which astronomers use to create an artificial reference star for adaptive optics. This enables the astronomers to make more accurate observations of the skies. If you want a more detailed explanation, head over to Mary Lee's blog, where you will also find lots of great poetry.

 "Quantifiable?"

Let there be light

the astronomer proclaims

and a laser beam 

shoots from earth

to measure 

heaven's vastness

Creator God

chuckles

as He watches

miniscule humans

attempt to quantify

the work 

of His mighty hands. 

(c) Carol Wilcox, 2013