the universe
remains unread
by earth’s great minds
though its music
and elusive songs
mesmerize from remote corners
seducing scientific entrepreneurs
to continue lifelong searches
for undiscovered quotients
while the poet
awaits that chance meeting
with eternal fire
to summon word spell baptismals
for aching readers
conjuring possibility
to unlock ancestral human delight
while weaving dreams and rhapsody
to fill the cosmos

so that astronomers may never rest

First published by ‘Nine Muses Poetry’,
edited by Annest Gwilym, June ‘20
‘reciprocity’
https://ninemusespoetry.com/2020/06/25/one-poem-by-geoffrey-aitken/