Galileo P. J. Murphy
Gifts of celestial truths
he brings to them,
charts, orbits, trajectories
- order and meaning
to the chaos
that is
the cosmos.
Long years observing,
plotting, deducing,
concluding
re-constructing
God's universe
for those whose eyes
would never see
further than their
misconceptions.
Magisterium,
by way of gratitude
remove freedom,
God-given rights.
Father of Science,
strident follower
of trails of stars,
now trails strides
between portals
in prison-home
Bereft of confiscated
tools of Science,
nightly seated
by high barred window
intent on Tuscan night sky.
Eyes dart to locate
Sirius, Jupiter, Mars.
Memory telescopes,
repaints the universe
in all of its celestial majesty.
An AllPoetry contest entry, the theme "Telescope"
Galileo Galilei, known as the Father of Science, was a scientist and astronomer, whose theories on heliocentricity ( earth revolving around the Sun, rather than vice versa ) led to his being put under house arrest by Pope Urban VIII .
he brings to them,
charts, orbits, trajectories
- order and meaning
to the chaos
that is
the cosmos.
Long years observing,
plotting, deducing,
concluding
re-constructing
God's universe
for those whose eyes
would never see
further than their
misconceptions.
Magisterium,
by way of gratitude
remove freedom,
God-given rights.
Father of Science,
strident follower
of trails of stars,
now trails strides
between portals
in prison-home
Bereft of confiscated
tools of Science,
nightly seated
by high barred window
intent on Tuscan night sky.
Eyes dart to locate
Sirius, Jupiter, Mars.
Memory telescopes,
repaints the universe
in all of its celestial majesty.
An AllPoetry contest entry, the theme "Telescope"
Galileo Galilei, known as the Father of Science, was a scientist and astronomer, whose theories on heliocentricity ( earth revolving around the Sun, rather than vice versa ) led to his being put under house arrest by Pope Urban VIII .
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