One with the sky

Ian Cheney mentions he "was at the center of the world" but that he had "left something important behind, something he couldn't name." I related myself to this, because when I would lay in my tailgate and look at the stars to just have that me time, I felt like I was the only one in the universe. There was no worries and nobody near me to make me feel stressed. I was the center of the world. When I would leave I would feel like I left that behind. I would want nothing more then to just go back. I felt as if I was leaving myself there. I feel like that's pretty important! When looking up into the sky there is nothing in your surroundings. It is very quiet and just you with loud thoughts. Him wondering, "What do we lose when we lose the night?" I think that he is saying you lose something within yourself. The night sky is between you and it, you lose that connection you have within yourself.
Ann Druyan says, "I worry that our lack of contact with the sky is doing something to us that's very subtle." This goes along with what Ian says. People have different relationships. Someone can have a relationship with the sky. When there is a lack of contact with ones relationship it can just throw them completely off. It strikes someone's confidence. I also relate to this because that "me" time I have with the sky clears my head. Sets my mind straight and back on the right track. It would throw off my subtle and make me insane I feel.
I feel like that's why so many people are worried about the lights and what it's doing to the world. It's not only messing with people's life, but with the environment. It goes to show we have to look at more then just ourselves and realize there is more to this world. More life in our surroundings that needs the stars and the sky for survival.

"Me" Time

There was a time in life when I used to go deer hunting. My family had a lease out in the hill country, and let me just tell you the sky was the best part. We had many deer leases over the years and the sky was always beautiful. There was one thing about the night sky in Llano, TX. It was different then all the others, it made you think. I always seemed to get left in my deer blind a lot later just because I was further out then the rest, so it took longer to get to me when it was time to come in. It didn't bother me by any means, because I could just look up and see something so pretty that I could of probably laid out there all night. Even when I would finally get back to camp I would get my sleeping bag and go lay in the bed of the truck just so I could keep looking up. Night time has always been an escape for me and when my mind just runs in circles, but it was different with this night sky view. I was still going a million different ways, but it all seemed to make sense and just help me through a lot about life. I have never been one to talk about myself so keeping things in was what I did best so it just felt nice to have my time alone. Now there were times when I would have friends laying there beside me and when we would stare up, deep conversations always seemed to come up but for a good reason. It seemed to clear a lot of my friend's heads and they realized why I enjoyed doing that every now and then. I have always still done it but at home. It's defiantly not the same for the mare fact that the sky is lit up more by city lights rather then just the moon light, but it still is something I do to clear my mind. You, best bet if I had the chance to go back to the hill country and have just a few minutes by myself to think and just have that "me" time, I most defiantly would! I really enjoyed astronomy when I was younger and when that lesson came in my science classes I tended to do much better in that category and it kept me interested. We had this Star Dome that we would go into and it was a lit up version of the stars and consolations, so it was defiantly a plus for me to name the different things when I did have my "me" time. I also felt pretty cool around my friends, just because I could kind of teach them about the sky. Of course they made fun of me and called me a nerd, but it was a side of me I enjoyed.

Intimacy to a Beautiful Level

Dick Davis in "A Monorhyme For The Shower," takes a whole new level on a women in the shower. It is clear that this women is someone he has been with for some twenty odd years. He states in the poem that the twenty years have gone by so fast. This women he describes is someone he is very much attracted to and very much in love with. From the very beginning when he describes that the women was someone he would not ever approach to a women he has children with to the this day. The only reason I can come to conclusion about that is because him saying "Childbearing, rows, domestic care--"(Davis9). She is someone with childbearing hips and domestic care, meaning she knows how to care for life. He goes so in dept about detail with this women. Puts sexual thoughts to mind, and very sensual thoughts as well. It is very tasteful, yet very mysterious at the same time.
Edward Nobles in "Popular Mechanics," takes a very sexual moment and compares every mechanic detail in site. Its a beautiful piece of work that makes such a passionate moment and shows the meaning of it. It is very clear what is happening, a man is between a women's legs, yes we see that. But my question is why is he using his surroundings to talk about? To me I have come to the conclusion that when your in such a passionate moment everything seems to slow down, every little thing stands out. The dust, the chair legs, marbles, even a penny rolling across the floor is so obvious in the sexual moment. It is a moment that he is sharing with this women. Some may wonder how you can see everything else while sharing this sexual experience with someone, but if ever in the situation, there is meaning behind it. Not everyone in intimacy shares such a passionate or more vulnerable moment with that other person. It is something special at happens with one or many, whatever you must choose.
Together these two poems share a great deal of intimacy. In a different way, but so alike at the same time. With the two going in to so much detail with each shows similarity. Davis is taking every detail of his loved ones body and making it tasteful when Nobles is taking every detail of his surroundings while sharing such an intimate moment with his loved one. The both take sexual moments to a whole new level, and make it so likable to read and so make similarites between the two.