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Megan Zhao Dec 2015
The Sun & Earth
23.5 tilted degrees
North Pole & South Pole
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
and Meridians
North/South/East/West
Hemispheres
Equinoxes
Solstices
Four seasons
Astronomical phenomena

Today at where I live——
On northern hemisphere
The Garden of Eden
A local Home Depot
The Sun will directly hit
The Tropic of Capricorn
giving us the longest night
and abandoning the North Pole
All it has remembered
is the pole on the other end
Where penguins, whale seals,
and albatrosses will bathe
whole day in full brightness
at -15 degrees Fahrenheit
What a chilling exhilaration!

Could I run away from
this so called winter solstice
this unbearable darkness
this senselessness of
obscurity and wickedness
Could I go to the South Pole
and dance with the penguins?
Megan Zhao Dec 2015
yes, i know
just like you
i've always been
on the road
if not my body
then it'd be my soul
a traveler's meditation
must be in motion
here or there
rain or shine
we have to go
and we're going now
collecting a few
and reflecting a little
intrigued or baffled
our mind changes
faster than the scenery
travel, thus to live
in an unknown land of freedom
awakened by a new moon  
each night
life's meant to be
lived fresh day and night
than repeats itself

— The End —