Andromeda sails
in the clear, northern heavens.
A faint patch; a home.
I watched as the dandelions blew away in the breeze
Like small tornadoes beneath me
You chuckle, then rush to collect them
Scared to see some unique begin to bloom?
Hunger rumbled through my body
Like a shouting gladiator
Piercing my stomach with his blade
Gyros spread across the set table
I watch as you sink your teeth into them
Starving like a ravenous tiger
Yet a heart softer than lavender
So, darling, let the games begin
Please offer me your hand to hold
Whisper to me, skin warm like tea
Olive complexion luring me in
Like I'm stuck inside a trance
Take this break while the tides are high
Guide me into this deep ocean
I'll backstroke through love's reservoir
This aura, it calls out my name impatiently
Sandalwood dances to my brain
The scent attracts me like a magnet
Farther away than Andromeda
My worry for the future, it drifts away
Now that ecstasy has incarcerated me
Nothing can ensure my soon release
Andromedan castles
moat has little blue boats
servers are maidens joyed
white iris gardens
deep canyons
radars aimed
soft cadence
magnet minds
love balanced
Orion forts marbled
shining with platinum bands
armoured Galactics cruel
stone and steel makes head reel
bold barons
orlon vests
high pylons
canon shots
warring sons
______________________________
Violet frequency.
Blurred in mercurial blue.
Prosed in my mind.
Remained your secrets in a verdant hue.
Ardent and warm...
I was held in your celestial arms.
Ardent and warm...
I was departed and unborn.
From a world unfree.
And hearts of scorn.
Andromeda Dancing
We look and see a blur
within the sky at night
how far she whirls from us
but if we have the aid
of Hubble’s telescope
it will reveal a trillion stars
like grains of sand that swell
an earthly beach or riverbank
though many light years past
this galaxy and ours will meet
ten billion years from now
when man and sun are gone
she and the Milky Way
sent swirling through infinity
un pas de deux immensité.
New planet
A beach, three suns, silent of waves
I arrived just here, breathing my life
New life, new planet, new life, live far
I left my home, the home the past home
No memory follows life starts one of on
Gone the history of the mother planet from
Silent in my heart, clouds are my eyes lives
Tears are gone; my past life has been forgotten
my life for now.
Now, and for all times; timeless life is on
No time, no history, lived this life in space on
Endless lands, opportunities, unblocked ways
Here is everything just paths and highways
No tears and stressful life, unknown pain
Always three the sun, dark always stand off
Sky, horizon, and lands are home to the light
Always three the sun, dark always stand off
New life, new planet, new life lives here
I left my home, Andromeda gave me
a new home
Past
to Home
New lives
On
ESCAPISM
In pyramids we finger attunements
or activations as love dances across
threads lost
Time of no consequence when past,
present and future ripples into your
Andromedan locks
Form changes from green to gold
or bronze to white with pale blue webs
It matters not
Gaia knows when to laugh
or cry, blossom or die
You read fairy tales
with drumbeats
Shakti curling up snugly
to sleep
I touch a fiery eagle landing
on my claustrum crown
with the same issues of
escapism
©GhairoDanielsPoetry&Song
2021
Fly me away to a place never reached
fly me away from here
fly me through space, or the atmosphere
fly away these thoughts that I think
Sometimes I sit a while all alone, just to wonder
times of better days to imitate better times
Sometimes I hide away when voices grow stronger
sometimes more than a while when I can't fake any pride
fly me away from here
perhaps to an island near
fly me away from here
Sometimes I sit a while all alone
to forget all the things that've heard
sometimes I sit a while like a child to be sober
But silence is louder than the words
fly me away, find me some place
a place where I cannot be found
fly me away my dear fly me away
where voices and choices aren't loud
He's strumming the guitar strings as if they weep,
near a warm campfire on a cold December night.
Sad chords of his song hold many secrets to keep.
Through Ponderosa pines, whistling winds sweep
while a silver moon hovers, lustrous and bright.
He's strumming the guitar strings as if they weep.
Visions of her appear. Each cutting cruelly deep,
memories that should never be brought to light.
Sad chords of his song hold many secrets to keep.
The fire sputters, causing golden flames to leap,
crimson embers and dark ashes rise up in flight.
He's strumming the guitar strings as if they weep.
Over rolling plains, echoing cries of coyotes sweep.
His heart fills with regret and he's gravely contrite.
Sad chords of his song hold many secrets to keep.
Serenading Andromeda, too restless for sleep.
Fingers picking the fret as he sings about his plight,
he's strumming the guitar strings as if they weep.
sad chords of his song hold many secrets to keep.
November 8, 2022-Third-Person Villanelle Contest
Sponsored by L Milton Hankins
a planet in Andromeda
in a meteor shower
light years away
inhabited by androids
mining camp
Dying the death
of eternity’s struggle
(while)
Living the life
of the moments rebirth
(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)
Get it right once
—and you’re free of forever
(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)
Andromeda Way
Planet 1Abxeami
Spaceship Ai
Faraway amongst all the stars,
There are mirroring spirals galore.
An Andromeda Strain for Andrea
Have heard that there is an Andromeda strain,
But being of sense parents had many a grain;
She was laden
With name maiden;
Shortened name to Andrea and it will remain.
Jim Horn
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