Dance of the Spheres

Dance of the Spheres As clear crystal fiery stars dance through the Milky Way The music of Heaven’s spheres vibrates harmonies - In dainty minuets comet’s trails and starry orbs waltz into the day. With solar breezes astral tarantellas dip and sway Celestial instruments in tune for moonlit symphonies As clear crystal fiery stars dance through the Milky Way. Adagio storms of fantasies through stardust cadence play While cosmic timpani compose the choreography - In dainty minuets comet’s trails and starry orbs waltz into the day. Star dances of the seasons rotate in theaters of great plies While heavenly chimes call the vesper’s dance in rhapsodies As clear crystal fiery stars dance through the Milky Way. Sparks of shattered fireballs take their place - the astronomic stage - The pulsing planet steps with the eternal dance card agree In dainty minuets comet’s trails and starry orbs waltz into the day. In arabesque my spirit leaps to join the spheres ballet The rotating company in lines - jettes of crystalline astronomy, As clear crystal fiery stars dance through the Milky Way In dainty minuets comet’s trails and starry orbs waltz into the day. 3-1-22 Contest: An Original Villanelle Sponsor: L. Milton Hanks N/A 3/3/22 9-19-22 Contest: Your Second Chance Second Submission Sponsor: Sotto Poet The Villanelle was originally a Spanish/Italian Renaissance dance song. The French poet Jean Passerat is credited with writing the first “modern” villanelle in 1606.