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Earth Day Tomorrow
By Moristotle
[I debated whether to byline this post “Moristarchus,” in homage to Aristarchus for inspiring today’s announcement, but decided that would be too energetic a song to sing, too big a planet, too large an orbit to assume.]
When I shared with my friend the Man of Montmartre that my “Quartina in Orbital Harness” had been posted on Highland Park Poetry’s Facebook page, he associated the poem with “some of the Cosmic Themes [of his] own recent musings,” and with Aristarchus of Samos (c.310–c.230 BC), who, he reminded me, “deduced, some 2,300 years ago, that the Earth was in orbit around the Sun, and not vice-versa.”
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Wow, Morris, this is great. I had never heard of the quartina before as a poetic type. It is very compelling, more insistent than the sestina, and more like a chant. Well done. Thanks for opening my eyes!
ReplyDeleteEric, if you’ve never heard of the quartina form, then maybe I really AM its originator! The sestina does go on a bit, and can seem too long.
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