A Fourth of Nine
...Like the globe she dances
Spinning on pointed toe
Pole to pole she meets
With arms en haut to show
Perfect orb, she crystal glow
Out as far as up, and
Down as far as in.
Jormungandr swim
Slic...
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Categories:
astrolabe, analogy, extended metaphor, love,
Form: Free verse
Unfurl Your Sails
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Each fragile dandelion Orb of feathered, tiptoed seeds
Invite Curiosity's breath to loft your prosperous needs
Anchor away La Pinta, La Niña, cast off Santa Maria
Heave hoe your Astrolabe Star...
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Categories:
astrolabe, journey,
Form: Rhyme
The Anna Belle Trilogy
...Anna Belle 1619 (Part One)
She set out to Jamestown in 1619
She's a Nordic ship on the sea
She's purple in shades in streams
She bathes in the Caribbean breeze
She needs no bard's flattery
No...
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Categories:
astrolabe, beauty, faith, for her,
Form: Epic
In the vast world, I am the leaf among winds, the undecided alignment of fate
...In the vast world, I am the leaf among winds, the undecided alignment of fate,
Astonished by myself in the mirror of the moment, disappointed by the foam of sinuous days.
Satisfaction and pain danc...
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Categories:
astrolabe, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Circus Celeste
...The greatest tent with its sparkling light,
the ultimate show of all tonight.
Bears, Scorpions, Bulls, Lions and Crab,
are some of the creatures on the twinkling map.
Aquarians, Librans and Gemin...
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Categories:
astrolabe, 12th grade, appreciation, longing,
Form: Ballad
Messahala Apostrophizes
...The astrolabe – how it depresses me!
The thing’s too perfect, no room left to grow.
Repeat, refine, reduce – a legacy
from which no vital spring can ever flow.
The thing’s too perfect! No room...
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Categories:
astrolabe, society,
Form: Pantoum
Astrolabe
...This spot spans the world in its entirety
and reaches through time with magnetized appendages,
in such ardent yearning
that it cracks the Earth like an egg and spreads its sorrow
throughout the ...
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Categories:
astrolabe, religion, self, space, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Peter and Heloise
...The alchemists seek to change iron into gold.
They have never succeeded, so I have been told.
However, I have found gold within your body.
Everything about you has scintillated me.
Heloise, not only ...
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Categories:
astrolabe, history, love, god, god,
Form: Rhyme
Nostradamus
...Working late at night,
The seer gazes into time:
Through a water bowl.
In private study,
He trembles in his robe as-
Foresight...fills the room.
Through late night vigils;
Divine splendor ...
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Categories:
astrolabe, time
Form: Choka