First Slam I've Written in a While

So hey! Sorry this is late, I had accidentally assume because we only had a post per week that we had the week to do that post, my bad! 

Well here it is a new poem I wrote for astronomy about the sun. I really liked writing and how it turned out. Also, excuse my sentence structure, phrasing, grammar, punctuation, and all that jazz because it's a slam, and when I write slam poems I just kinda let if flow and shape it to how I want it read....if that makes sense....

It's titled "Astronomical Royalty."

Enjoy!

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From helios of the greeks

to apollo of the romans

to amaterasu of ancient japan

to hepa, who comes from hittite religion

and ra out of ancient egypt

The sun has been the god and the goddess that rose each day

that brought light upon darkness without fail

that heated the earth for good weather and a prosperous growing season

that kept the earth in line

Its pull carries us, along with the other planets, through our orbits without fail

and keeps us from colliding in one giant mess of explosive tragedy,

that even from 92.96 million miles away, wraps us in warmth like nothing else

With a waistband of 2 million 713 thousand 406 miles, the sun retains 99.86% of the solar system’s total mass.

Large and in charge, the sun is our solar system’s top dog.

The corona,

literally meaning “the crown” in latin,

sits atop our sun’s atmosphere declaring it king above all and to all

And though a great ball of burning chemical reactions that creates heat so unimaginable all we have to represent it are numbers,

our great star cares for her planets like a mother swaddles her children

Its great gravitational pull holds us in orbit around her as we are swung into ellipses

And as it treats us with warmth and brightness,

our sun’s power is still a force only true fools would reckon with

100 billion tons of dynamite detonated

every

single

second

would only just match the intensity of our solar monarch.

Sunspots and solar flares keep our observations fresh

bright flashes and dark spots that we’re still learning about give us more insight into our emperor with each new discovery

and remind us that our solar sultan is no stagnant anything

but so much more

And to think

we used to think

that we

were at the center of the universe

but it was aristarchus, who was first to say

not us,

but the bright bulb that lit up the entire world

was what we circled,

What we ran a ring around,

What we embraced

And like so many civilizations

ancient and not

that placed their sun upon a pedestal

higher than any mortal ruler

we bow our heads at the astronomical royalty beyond our atmosphere

The Sun

It's one of millions of stars out there

but one in a million

to us

and the star closest to our hearts,

literally.

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