Evening Star

[Johntee]

We know now

it's too near to be a star.

Wanderers, the Greeks called
them, πλάνης, plánēs,

planets like our own.

Like but unlike.

No hint of green.

If life exists, drained by

Venus's sulphur acid rain

or blast froze in Mars's

desert dusted grains

it maybe hints

at Earth's evolution,

and things in time to come

[The second]

very nice jt