Northern Lights
Psychedelic cascades
In scintillating clouds
Streaming through the sky
With mesmeric majesty
In illuminations of gaudy display
Of glorious flourescent waves.
Magnetic colours
Wafting on the solar breeze,
Crashing on the seas
Of the moon
As electrons shine
Particles charge from the sun
To excite the eye
And flow across the retina.
Opher 17.3.2018
Living in the North of England we are fortunate to occasionally get to see the Northern Lights. The sky puts on a lightshow of scintillation with sheets of fluorescent colour like a psychedelic lightshow. The sky glows and shimmers as the solar stream hits our outer atmosphere in a rage of ions, electrons and magnetic fury displayed in beauty.