The Lens of the Future


I.
From three-power up to nine
Telescope tunnels through space
Galileo scanned God’s vast design:
Thirty-power soon found its place.

Then Jupiter s moons loomed in view.
Heresy! Earth wasn t right
In the midst of Creation a new
Insight suffused its strong light.

Could people traverse what lay there?
Hypothetical pioneers far
Ascending the galaxies stair
Ladder-like, star after star.

II.

The moon was the goal to reach,
Johannes Kepler briskly agreed
Like Columbus toward Salvador s beach,
Borne at incredible speed.
09-21 & 22-91

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