How to Touch the Sky

To touch the sky
from anywhere

remain right there

standing
sitting

either way

with widened eyes
or eyelids shut

hands wherever
they may lay

fingers clenched
relaxed or spread

no magic
or imagining

instead

let science define atmosphere
from overhead
down to the ground

the air about us
all around!




How to Touch the Sky © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

View this poem at AllPoetry.com

50 words (prompt limit). Touch the Clouds challenge prompt link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2739320-50-words-Contemporary-Abstract--TOUCH-THE-C

Poem inspired by science:
https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/0402/02173.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/layers-of-the-atmosphere-p2-3444429
Submitted: January 10, 2020









AllPoetry.com             ArtOfInterpretation.com