BOOK PROMOTION: Searching for Ascension by Rebecca S. Nieminen

About the Book:

Do you long for a kinder, more enlightened world? In Searching for Ascension, writer/photographer Rebecca S. Nieminen blends words and images in a heartfelt quest for beauty, justice, truth, and wisdom. Her ethereal photographs inspire and delight, while her candid and tender poetry encourages reflection on the human condition. Within these pages readers will discover a sensitive and courageous soul in pursuit of hope and meaning in an often troubled world.

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Totality

Poem about the solar eclipse

I didn't expect to cry

I knew it would get dark

And I knew the animals would react

That’s what all the newscasters kept saying

But they didn’t say how it would feel

No, they didn’t say how it would feel

That was the day when time stood still

As the shy black moon slowly but surely

Covered the brilliant, colossal, intimidating sun

Oh, the strange silvery glow and slanting shadows

Sending shivers up my spine

And then, like a snuffed candle

The inky, incredible, ethereal hush of darkness

The landscape stretched before me

In fantastical, otherworldly hues

And right there, up above, somehow so close

Was that mighty life-giving star

Suddenly an intimate friend

Viewed through flimsy cardboard glasses

Or curious camera lenses, probing, snapping

The regal, royal, roaring sun

With all of its staggering secrets exposed

Its dazzling corona and red plasma flares

Slung outward from that thin, white

hypnotic disc

Time and breath suspended

And then the blinding flash of the diamond ring

A miracle too astonishing for words

In the distance people cheered

A dog barked and birds twittered

And somehow, some way, we were one

All of us, for just a little bit, united

Our differences forgotten, our malice lifted

All faces tilting upward, watching, wondering

Wide smiles, salty tears

The miracle of being human together

On this ancient and wise yet fragile earth

With its life-giving sun and mutable moon

Remember how it felt that day, never forget it

This life, it is sacred, how can you doubt it?

We are all connected

How can you not know it?

I wasn’t expecting to cry

© Rebecca S. Nieminen

(In memory of the solar eclipse, April 8, 2024)

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