# A night sky

> We're looking at the night sky in awe in this issue #236 of your weekly poetry shot

**Published by:** [trpplffct](https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/)
**Published on:** 2025-03-14
**Categories:** poetry, highku, space, stars, moon
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@trpplffct/a-night-sky

## Content

I watch in awe bright spots around the moon tonight - I can't tell which ones are the planets and which ones the stars.Recently, there was this unique moment where at night you could see seven planets aligned in the sky. A rare opportunity. I looked at the sky these days, at night. We even had some cloudless nights, so I really could see the moon and lots of bright spots. Then I realised: I have no idea how to distinguish a planet from a star. Still, the night sky with the moon and the stars was an awesome thing to look at. On one of the days, I looked up, saw a crescent moon, and it just reminded me of those 1920s illustrations of the moon with a face. A poem was born. Did you recognise the planets?Collect The poem above is a highku, a poetic form inspired by the haiku and the higher culture on Farcaster.This is a free newsletter. If you enjoy it, please consider becoming a Trpplr. You will get poetry NFTs, too.Subscribe to Trpplr on HypersubTrpplrs are sending ripples of poetry through the world, to make it more fun. As a Trpplr, you will get: & special poetry drops from me and up-and-comin...https://hypersub.xyzPoésie de la vieSpace is immensely fascinating, and the science that makes things like the Webb telescope possible is an amazing accomplishment of humanity. Science is cool. Space is mesmerising. Enjoy this video.

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