We are just grains of sand in the vast cosmic ocean One key element that makes death so weird and disconcerting is that we are but dust in the wind, quickly blown away and forgotten, yet when we inevitably leave this veil of tears, a unique sensory, psychological, and intellectual universe, an entire history in..
Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing – Carl Sagan Celestial Deception: A Tanka poem Cocoon nebula Portending a butterfly To the naked eye… Our doors of misperception A cause for celebration?..
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. – Carl Sagan Inexpressible cosmic beauty…and empty space: A Tanka poem A flash of wonder, Andromeda, galactic, Colours so divine. Spectacular illusion: Artifice fills empty space. Tanka poems follow a set of rules. They all have five lines, and each line..