Light Pillar

Volcanic magma
emitting fiery glow
shaped and filtered
by Mount Etna’s caldera
reflecting off ice crystals
high above the night air

This serendipitous rendezvous
between a hemorrhaging earth
and vaporous atmosphere
illuminated without sun
creating a pillar of light
against a sky so fair

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Image: Light Pillar over Volcanic Etna, Image Credit & Copyright: Giancarlo Tinè, from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 15, 2021.

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Linked to dVerse Poets Pub — Quadrille #140: Let’s Go To The Fair!, where Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting and asked us to pen a quadrille using the word fair.

Quadrille: A poetic form introduced at dVerse Poets Pub circa 2011. The rules for Quadrille: not including the title, a poem of exactly 44 words using the prompt word or its variant.

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26 thoughts on “Light Pillar”

    1. Thanks David. It was the Astronomy Picture of the Day, and when I saw it, I said to myself “there’s a poem in there”.

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