By
Dr. Alice Kinninger
HALLEY’S COMET to me
Is a
“WARM FUZZY”…
For
you see
A “Halley Two-Timer”, I be.
Great scientists say that HALLEY is just dust
and ice!
But I
think that way to speak of it, is not very nice –
For
to me, it’s meeting again, a long lost friend…
One I first met 75 years ago (years after year’s end).
Yes! We met out beyond the steps of our
hilltop new
Two-story home…Santa Barbara – 1910…
Physician-Father
lovingly holding me (wrapped in a
Blanket)
and then
With Mother, two teen-age brothers standing near…
Awed at first… then we all did
CHEER
As that night
We viewed such a spectacular sight!
OH! HALLEY’S COMET with its tail…
Tail beautiful as a wedding veil!
Like the tail of a comet, the long warm blanket
Seemed to flow to the ground…
While that fantastic COMET, overhead, went its
Elliptical orbit, ‘round.
As young as I was, I sensed the love of my
family,
Who
cared enough to lift me from my bed that night
To
share with me that glorious sight!
May ALL CHILDREN, this year, so fortunate be…
And
then, they again see
In
2061 A.D. …
That they, as HALLEY TWO-TIMERS may shout with glee!
HALLEY’S COMET! So beautiful, dependable in
its path…
To
plan that, God surely knows math
In
order to map and guide in all those orbits:
Comets, Planets and stars so bright – just right!
It’s been so worthwhile all through the years
to now be well
So to
you and our Grandchildren I may tell
Of
the love of my family, so long ago,
How they shared with me such mystery:
HALLEY’S COMET! WARM FUZZY … OLE FRIEND …
Upon our knees bend!
HAPPY HALLEY DAYS! … I say
Amo Alice Corpe Kinninger (Dr.
K.)