"The Astronomer"

[Delorfinde]

I wrote this on the back of a booklet during an English Lesson that I had to sit in and evaluate ... My favourite stanza is definitely the third one, I think ...

Huddled in the far off corner
A blanket on my knee
The telescope by my side
So that I can see.

Shivering in the darkness
Kneeling on the grass
A camera round my neck
The night so to pass.

Looking at the stars
Noting down the sight
Camera now in action
Capturing the night.

Sunrise coming swiftly,
Banishing the stars,
Hiding every whisper,
Every tiny glance of Mars.

But I'll be back tomorrow
In the evening, I'll come
And gaze again at them,
'Till my fingers then are numb.

[dancingal]

i used to wanna be an astonomer!!! great poem

[Delorfinde]

I wanted to take a GCSE in Astronomy but I was too busy and so it didn't work out. Which is a shame, because it would have been fun. My sister took one. She had to make a sundial and she trod on it and the metal went through her foot ... :/

[dancingal]

ouch sounds painful!! that would have been fun. i used to read like every book on the planets and stars and stuff. i was a saturn nerd it was my fav planet. i was like a walking encyclopedia of astronomy facts. we had this board game called the constellation game and i won every time... now ive forgotten everything

[Delorfinde]

Aww, that's a shame. You should have kept it up so that you didn't forget it What was the game like?