Orbital Paradox
How Much is Enough?
By Dana CrandellPublished about a year ago • Updated about a year ago • 1 min read
Photo by Bill Jelen on Unsplash
strings of satellites
for the sake of connection
isolate our world
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Author's Note: I love all things space, but I love space more. According to the ESA, there are currently more than 35,000 objects being tracked in orbit around our planet, but the number of pieces of debris over one centimeter is over a million. What intelligent species would work so hard to block out the stars?
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Dana Crandell
Dad, Stepdad, Grandpa, Husband, lover of Nature and dogs.
Poet, Writer, Editor, Photographer, Artist
My poetry collection: Life, Love & Ludicrosity
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Comments (15)
Indeed, who would willingly sacrifice such a view?? Loved your haiku though!!
Yes! This is fantastic, Dana! What an astute assessment captured in a very clever Senryu!
Gorgeous haiku! And damn, what a downer about all that space garbage, truly. Trust humans to ruin and disrespect anything, even something so much broader and greater than ourselves.
Though intelligence grants us a greater capacity for wisdom, it does not, unfortunately, confer it automatically... Well-wrought!
Lol, humans, of course! Loved your Haiku!
Great haiku for remembering what we've put "up in the sky." ✨🌙
I guess we leave a ring in anything we swim in.
Yeah it is insane how many things are floating around earth (both satillites, and general debris). When I first came across that I was shocked. It's hard to see the scale of this because these things are not visible to us when we look up. Another addition to "out of sight, out of mind" I guess 😅. Im assuming it'll be kind of like global warming, where we produced and produced without care, and only later realised the affects it had on the environment... Maybe sometimes in the future this ring of debris around earth will have some kind of affect on us. I just hope we catch it in time
Agree with Heather. This is a poignant senryu reminder!
I wrote about this too and was absolutely shocked to find out how much estimated space garbage is floating around. Great one, BB!
This is so beautiful and so sad! Perfect haiku, Dana! Oh, how I long to see the sky in its rawest form—before we launched our mess up there.
connection might be the misguiding light my friend, love this 😀😀
Beautifully written!
hello, hello, hello...is there anybody out there? Great take, Dana
Wow. That's incredible. You got me thinking, my friend.