What’s Up?

If, when we die,
we go up to heaven…
Do folks in the Southern Hemisphere
go down?
And when we travel
out in space…
Do we go up or down?
Up seems only valid
when there is
an Earth that grounds us…
Looking up!

Earth Rise Painting: Dwight L. Roth

Quadrille Monday…   Today, at d”Verse, De Jackson asked us to consider the word up. I decided to attempt to add a bit of humor to my Quadrille of only 44 words.

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Which Way is Up?

Photo:  darkmatterspace@wordpress.com

It seems funny to me that we talk about going up to heaven when we die. Which way is up? Depending on the continent we live on it could be a lot of different directions. Nevertheless, when we think of the heavens we are covering a vast expanse beyond the human mind. We are in a small miniscule part of this great cosmos. If the cosmos were a human being, they would have to use an electron microscope just to find the Milky Way Galaxy! How small we must be!

Is Heaven up there

hidden in the Milky Way…

An eternal Spring?

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Frank Tassone asked us to write a Haikai poem of our choice that alludes to or mentions the Milky Way. Join us at:

#Haikai Challenge #51 (9/15/18): Milky Way (amanogawa) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga