Edlynn Nau Poet Alliteration

Arcturus Treasure

ARCTURUS TREASURE 

Just standing in the handle of the dipper.
Drinking stars from inside her silver slipper.
The cup is buoyed up in ancient liquid light.
And Ursula tags a string upon her kindly kite.

Arcturus has flung the dipper far and high.
It rides the flow and surfs the starry sky. 
The giant orange that spies the buxom bear. 
Our secrets safe and kept as treasure there. 

Upright to Milky Way it rips the canopy to scars.
And quickly moves against a slice of slippery stars.
Red glint that is polar to the stoic starry stream.
A visitor that flies within a deft diminutive dream.

Then in a blink or in a million years from now. 
The red rust will break from our starry burnished bough. 
A star no longer seen to ride a season by Ursula's urge.
Nor extend its dipper's handle in a splendid splurge. 

A giant red that wore the bootes of heardsman all it's life. 
And followed close to make the North Star a wondrous wife. 
No Icarus to fly and melt in drawing hot while narrowing near
It's but a dying star yet keeps melodic magic sung in echoes ear. 

by Edlynn Nau

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Connie Marcum Wong May 16, 2016 at 1:51 AM I was delighted to read about Arcturus. Thank you for letting me know about this impressive poem Edlynn. I have seen it in the sky near the handle of the big dipper. I am learning how to find the constellations I am looking for with my charts, but it is easy to make a mistake. The belt of Orion jumps out and is easy to always spot, so I go from there. I think this poem is a masterpiece and I am faving it! #7 ; ) Edlynn Nau May 16, 2016 at 3:03 AM Awwww! Thank you so much! It is easy to get lost in the sky! When I finally got use to the Northern hemisphere and then when I went to Tahiti, the southern sky looked so different. It's like I was on another planet. It's so fun isn't it? Oh nice, another skywatvpcher!

Olive Eloisa Guillermo - Fraser October 27, 2015 at 7:47 AM Edlynn, I nearly read and search for the arcturus.. I enjoyed the read bringing me to the celestial!!! imaginative and creative! rhymes great line flowing good!~Olive Eloisa Edlynn Nau December 7, 2015 at 3:35 PM Thank you so much Olive. I have a number of delightful responses from the end of October through November that I never received. I guess I will need to notify the powers that be! Yikes. Thank you SO MUCH for stopping in for a read. I hope to catch up soon & stop in to have a nice read of yours too! Edlynn Nau October 29, 2015 at 3:32 PM Thank you so much! I'm just on my way to read more of yours!

Joseph May October 24, 2015 at 2:23 PM Beautiful celestial write Edlyn...Enjoyed Edlynn Nau December 7, 2015 at 3:32 PM Thanks you SO MUCH Joseph! Apparently I haven't been getting all my Soup Mail. I'm sorry this response is so tardy. Edlynn Nau October 25, 2015 at 1:50 AM Thank you Joseph! I see you have been writing away while I've been gone most of summer. Trying to get back at it! Missed everyone!

Eileen Manassian October 23, 2015 at 1:05 PM Enjoy the lesson in astronomy. :) The constellations enthrall me. My father is quite good at pointing them out on a starry night. Thanks for the visit to my work and for sharing this treasure of a little known star. Edlynn Nau October 23, 2015 at 1:39 PM Arcturus is VERY WELL known...Arc to Arcturus from the handle of the Dipper. The Star is older but much bigger than our sun. Nice you have a dad that can Stargaze with you. I so love the stars. Thank you for reading and placing a note. I want to read more of your work!

Mike Martin October 20, 2015 at 1:52 PM Well done. And quite informative. Edlynn Nau October 21, 2015 at 1:25 AM Oh good! We all like a new idea or information from time to time. Thank you Mike for stopping by.

CayCay Godwin October 20, 2015 at 1:50 PM You continue to both impress me and remind me that I am ignorant about many things. Your knowledge knows no limits. A beautiful poem, Edlynn, that transported me to the galaxy and, then, beyond ... CayCay Edlynn Nau December 7, 2015 at 3:38 PM Thank you SO MUCH CayCay! I haven't been getting all my mail from the Soup and so this is horribly tardy. I AM sorry! Still working on that IRS audit.

Skat A October 20, 2015 at 11:26 AM This is very good Edlynn, beautiful imagery. SKAT Edlynn Nau December 7, 2015 at 3:36 PM Thank you so much Skat! If you have EVER seen Arcturus standing at the end of The Big Dippers handle then you know how you can get lost in the stars.

Anne-Lise Andresen October 19, 2015 at 1:41 PM - A wonderful poem,Edlynn :) - I enjoy reading this, a gem! - (7) - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Edlynn Nau October 20, 2015 at 1:04 AM Thank you! I had such a great time writing it! I loved the research as well.

Robert Lindley October 18, 2015 at 2:59 PM All across our Universe the fires still burn. We are but a speck of water,dust and rock in that vast mist. Great poem, another equally solid 7.. Edlynn Nau October 18, 2015 at 3:52 PM Hmmmm! "Are we the drop of water in the ocean or the ocean in a drop of water?" -Rumi Thank you for your attention Robert! Just getting to know your art and enjoying your honed skills! E. Nau

Michael Tor October 18, 2015 at 2:52 PM Another well researched write Edlynn. I get a mini lesson loved it. Thanks for all the info and the poem was great. Have the fires diminished? Edlynn Nau November 8, 2015 at 6:54 PM Hmmmm! (CayCay) I was sure Michael meant: why was I "not posting poetry kind of "fires"since I had not for a bit. HA! He certainly could have meant the literal NorCal Fires? Not sure...the man has disappeared! Poof! CayCay Godwin October 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM Michael's comment refers to your absence only, of this, I am sure Edlynn Nau October 18, 2015 at 3:48 PM Thank you Michael! Diminished? Am I slipping? Well in the start, I had a folder of poetry I could start posting. I don't write all the time and yet have 15 on my draft board waiting, like petulant children, to be written. I have a process: Idea, Research, Click Pen, Write! I throw away those I feel are hum drum and only keep a few. So, you will only see "the few" (I'm afraid)! E. Nau

John Fleming October 18, 2015 at 2:05 PM Some beautifully conceived lines, Edlynn. Pleased to meet you. Really enjoyed the facts you provided...And the poem! Best regards! :) john. Edlynn Nau October 18, 2015 at 2:35 PM Thank you so much John. It's kind of fun to anthropomorphize the stars and the planets! It wasn't an easy write since I had to do the research and really attend to alliteration. I wish we didn't have to have a URL to share a picture. I'd get to post the amazing picture that inspired this. I think I can find it on NASA but the posting here is not that user friendly. Ha!