Eclipse

Gold cherry
Poem of the week

By samhennig

Thu, 13 Aug 2026
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6 comments
 

 

I watched people

watch the eclipse.

Cereal cartons

and colanders 

and cardboard glasses.

 

Everyone turned 

orange and 

a lady told me about 

an eclipse in the 50’s

when she was a girl. 

 

She told me about her 

school back then,

and how she hadn’t 

learnt much there

but had learnt so 

much since. 

 

There was a rush

at the bar afterwards. 

 

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Comments

Submitted by insertponceyfre... on

I'm really enjoying your recent poems Sam, thank you

 

Submitted by samhennig on

Thanks so much. I'm enjoying writing more than I ever have at the moment.

Sam Hennig

Submitted by Di_Hard on

samhennig's wonderful description of yesterday's excitement is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can.

The image is from here :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eclipse_colander_(54417391468).jpg

Sam, please change this, if you want to.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

This is great. I really enjoyed it. From your words I can imagine the whole scene.

You could use the last stanza to finish any poem I suppose.  

Turlough

Submitted by airyfairy on

This is our wonderful Poem of the Week! Congratulations!

Submitted by celticman on

eclipse was so muted in Scotland it wasn't even a shadow, never mind an eclipse.