Best Antares Poems
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else—John Burroughs
Blame
Underneath a belt of stars in stratosphere’s arena
There, blood rushes within each lover’s heart
Veiled by the silky fibrils of the cortina
A solid dome in the deep vast expanse, heaven’s vault
Ever debuts Dante’s Paradiso,
Where angels fear to tread, far off and away
they stay from the milky orb, be it so, and instead,
for fear of the mid-night’s enticing allure, and
love’s lasting doom, they…
Blame the Moon
Orion rises in the Orient East,
it sets in the wide Occident West
Antares only rises once Orion sets, vice versa!
Spellbound, forever severed, and a lunar eclipse longing
An affair’s unrest, not potions nor a test or curse, ah
Their quest to finish weakened minds
Seduced by halos ivory glow in twilight
Lusting mortals, passionate kinds
Held captive, never to unite ‘neath
the pearlescent orb’s sheen at midnight
Gold-leaf doors unbarred, luminous lune art
Seduced as pleasing colors meld white to blue
Ere a raging tempest rips apart the seether
Empyreus, quintessence, searing crimson love they’ve fallen into
True Aristotle’s aether
in bloom,
Hark! Blame not each other…
Blame the Moon!
Categories:
antares, fate, love, lust, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
Antares' red glow bears firmly down
upon plush, chartreuse carpet
lying prone against the obsidian expanse,
blanketing sections of a remote
blue sphere, purling,
spinning helplessly
through distant time and space;
slave to routine and rotation,
never daring to break free;
to reach out.
Scorpius sprawls low
across the Autumn void;
a celestial corpse
twinkling, twitching;
inexplicably still breathing,
expelling the last
of her precious plexine light
in a final, desperate act
to awake inspiration, stir passion,
proffer wholeness and healing
to an infirmed, ungrateful planet,
for her end-of-reign recession.
Projecting dreams; visions
like swirling Akashic holograms
leaping forth from ancient pages
of ethereal records,
all but lost to time and apathy.
Twisting snakelike through the cosmos,
her broody gaze steeling
in every direction;
fierce energy bombarding;
burning across the universe.
Intense joules bursting forth;
reaching out to nurture
willing universal souls;
scorching those who reject her,
turning them to table fodder
at a divine banquet
for dark gods.
Sagittarius flickers jovially behind
as if breathless with laughter;
taunting, frustrating,
staying just out of reach
of her vengeful tail.
The rule of Scorpio wanes
upon Orion's horizontal breach
extinguishing the sting-ed cluster;
quelling her tumultuous surge
until late-spring pains
rebirth her fires,
igniting them, emerging again
from the icy chasm
of black oblivion.
Categories:
antares, space, stars,
Form:
Free verse
She Is Nothing Like The Stars
She is nothing like Sirius,
But her eyes are the bluest blue.
Nor is she like Antares
Yet her skin has a warm, soft hue.
Her hair is like the golden Milky Way
Draped across the dark sky,
Unlike all the spectral jewels ever
Through the telescope spied.
Would she be like the Sun
I could not gravitate to her more
And still be as distant.
Like a wave never greeting the shore,
Her eyes never meeting mine.
She is nothing like the stars, except...
Expressed in time,
Light years away.
Written June, 1976
Any poem ever written NOT for a contest.
Rhyme scheme: A,B,C,B,D,E,F,E,G,H,I,H,J,K,J,L
Categories:
antares, absence, loneliness,
Form:
Rhyme
Night revolves in stillness,
reaching for the dawn.
Orion, Taurus and the Dogs,
yield to Deneb and the Swan.
And there in deep south rising,
a blood-tinged, pulsing heart,
Antares, stinger and the claws:
celestial works of art.
But now comes an intruder
amid Scorpius’ vivid stars,
for Antares is but mere rival
to the dazzling orb of Mars.
In dreams I've often wandered
and traversed empty space—
through darkest matter I have roamed,
yet yearned for just one place.
Its icy poles I’ve glimpsed from earth—
winds and saffron dust—
iron from exploded suns
gathered there as rust.
I’m sure I’d miss the color green—
long for skies of blue.
But brand new memories I’d espouse
forgetting hues I knew.
Alas, I'm tethered to the earth—
can’t travel into space.
So in twenty, maybe thirty years,
won’t you please go in my place?
1st Place, Mars Contest
Categories:
antares, anniversary,
Form:
Quatrain
Once upon a time...
A little boy and a little girl
Looked up at the stars from the planet below
Seeing the moon hang bright in the sky
Said one to the other, I wonder... I wonder, if there we could go.
Said the stars in the sky to the two on the ground,
If you reach up high and fly into the night
You will never come down
Try as you might
So the boy and the girl came up with a scheme
(not to be like Heroes stun guns blazing,
Or find aliens no matter how amazing)
But to build a sleek spaceship to follow their dream.
They rolled up their sleeves,and got right to work
Putting gizmos to gadgets,
whosits to whatsits
A mighty spaceship did start to take form.
At last came the day when the two,
Declared that all was right.
they could finally, 3...2...1 ...
Blast off into the night.
Together in a spaceship built on dreams
As they went along their travels
All of the marvels
In a lonely universe they did see.
Past the supernovas
And into Antares nebula
Swinging from Orion's belt
And drinking from the dipper.
Seeing baby stars be born
In the Oort cloud
Eating cookies with the Milky way
Jumping around the galaxies.
Just the boy and the girl all alone
Among the shining stars
Floating in a spaceship
Heading back towards home.
A little boy and a little girl
Look down from the stars to the planet below
Past the moon hanging bright in the sky.
Said one to the other, I wonder... I wonder, if there we could go.
... The end.
03/02/14
Categories:
antares, children, dream, flying, space,
Form:
Free verse
You turn me on, you make me misty-eyed,
My nascent science of love, years back,
When I followed you downstream, to bloom it began,
The sight of flowers blossom, in earnest we did invest,
Your frail hands, soft and tender,
Your electric touch, skin-deep not,
You taught me to watch the stars, in reflection I wondered,
The Antares and Aldebaran, caught my sigh,
Provoked, you opened the gates to your heart,
You filled me in, you turned me on,
Oh the Aroma, and the beauty to behold,
Two star-crossed lovers,
As breath-taking as the Maasai Mara, we opened to a new world
Full of life,
Full of energy,
Reasons why you turn me on!
Categories:
antares, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Not knowing then when we penned the verse called, 'Chimes'....
That it would seem as a prophecy one day unto this loving heart ?
An anniversary His child their; imagine ? What becomes remains; real
Never because he says this or she states that: Faith, plays righteousness
Trust, proclaims life be light ? Visions time's infant solitary atop these shores
Saying welcome to resistance, the fallout and more ? Transient ten thousand
years..
Black magic birthstones a craft; their evil dead ? Ascension His baby antares
awash love's castles.
Categories:
antares, angel, art, autumn, love,
Form:
HUNTER STARS
Fears half-hid behind curtain, faces sallow,
Two small kids shivering at the cold open window.
We look trembling at the stars across the black -
A thousand guys in the dark searching for our track,
Each with tiny red or yellow flashlight -
Steady, pulsing, dim, or bright.
Brighter ones are closer - in groups or alone;
Far-off ones are completely unknown.
Special guys like Antares or Arcturus
Spinning, searching in circles around us.
Big fellows like the Hunter Orion
Getting closer with dogs Sirius and Procyon :
Sometimes they can’t see us for cloud,
Can’t hear us as we bravely whisper aloud
‘You tiny hunters don’t scare us ; you’ll run
In the morning when you see our sun.’
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Written for Judy Konos's Contest "A Short Poem"
by Sydney Peck
Categories:
antares, childhood
Form:
Couplet
Comets taking a self guided tour
So many to drink in without a slur
Mystical and genuine, both are a plenty
Antares is a fundamental of my entity
The only commonality is their drawings among the stars
As Tellurians, we claim many of them are among ours
Signs are clearly visible in the clear night sky airs
Are six and two totally opposite sets of pairs?
Perhaps all are well read bibliomaniacs
That pledge allegience to the zodiacs
Categories:
antares, appreciation, deep, extended metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Not knowing then when we penned the verse called, 'Chimes'....
That it would seem as a prophecy one day unto this loving heart ?
An anniversary and his child their imagine ? What becomes remains, real
Never, because he says this or she states that; faith plays righteousness
Trust proclaims life be light ? Visions time's infant solitary atop these shores
Saying welcome to resistance, the fallout and more ? Transient, ten thousand years..
Black magic birthstones a craft; their evil dead ? Ascension His baby antares awash love's castles.
Categories:
antares, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form:
Catch a ride on the tail of a comet
Breakneck speed: Hold on to your bonnet!
Dodge bits and pieces of space-debris
Obstacle course on the celestial sea
See the planets as they orbit the sun
Venus, Mars, Jupiter -- watch Mercury run
View constellations like Antares and Polaris
Swoop past Alpha Centauri, Andromeda and Sirius
Wouldn't it be marvelous to actually do this?
To fly 'round the heavens -- ecstasy's bliss
Categories:
antares, flying, planet, star, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Light! Oh, light that Christmas tree gaily light,
Intoning angels fly, light flickers to full delight,
Beneath twigs lies my gracious Christmas gift,
From my kind heart and hand I bestow you,please lightly lift.
I called holy eleves and fairies,
I invite down the celestial antares,
And all the adept musicians to sing and play,
Under the merry Christmas lights we shall dance and overstay.
Come! Oh,my friends and kins together
Father Jesus brings joy and laughter,
Pray that lights of Christmas to be your guide,
And let your heart fill eternal love and pride.
Copyright © Dawa Zangpo
Categories:
antares, blessing, cheer up, dance,
Form:
Rhyme
END TIMES : TWO
End time dramas continue
to unfold as foretold
tribes of Judah and
Gad united in ether
descending conspiring
to pull Matrix strings
across rooms boom
death Will hidden
documents forged
a trigger activates
illicit action
Centre remains perfection
resurrection
Claim no marriage for
money honeyed
both are paper thin
dust speckled dragonflies
glide into geraniums cry
Truth mourns
hen-chicken ferns
hush murky tears
car ignition fear
burns
Pain has nowhere to
pulse but deep within
stealth sidles sleep
jealousies bleep
forever laced in viral
lanced cellular haste
Antares and Arcturus
watch spiritual warriors
discuss hush actions
gush
Clothed in black head
to toe racing an Audi
making it glow, split
second disappearance
Light sees ass twitch
seeking protection from
words rained in past
reflections
Outgrown forms collapse
to usher in cycles of
initiatory synapse
What is this past anyway ?
Another man’s download
in a desert of dialectic
redemption fast
These end times hold
keys to Uruz strength
so wrenching deep
mouldy ceilings weep
glass teapot aches
growth changes rune
stone answers fake
Passages of Dark part
once again decay
death fertilization
gestation rebirth
this is progression
as mirth
Then Melchedzidek spoke
in cloak to Sham’s Forty
Rules of Love inked across
my marked forehead
mint plant pegged
ancient fern atop torn
garden statue stern
Who will take the
Leap of Faith leaving
to proclaim missions
without a fission
Spiritual warriors know
their inner laws when
writ in cursive upon
open doors
they care not when
orders to leave
fly thick and fast
not cheap
Miners died in vain cold
digging for gold sold to
adorn Draco throats torn
glistening gloat
forms dying disguised
as boss lost tossed
we know no collapse
will not be flossed
our timing spot
on glossed
We live life potent
respected radical
transition
seize a moment
seen the vision !
©GhairoDanielsPoetry
&Song2025
Categories:
antares, allegory, change, courage, death,
Form:
Rhyme
From the cradle, I leaned left before I could even talk,
Tossing my applesauce leftward before I could walk.
I marched in every protest before I turned thirteen,
When I wasn't red, then I was green.
In college, I joined the DSA, they told me beliefs to hide
They said wave the rainbow, I'd lead the nation, with pride
They handed me the program, the social solution
To create eternal justice, a necessary revolution.
First, spend like a sailor who's drunk in a storm
Then crush every energy source that keeps people warm
Legalize weed, hard drugs, till folks confuse day and night
Invite the world's poor, pay their college, its their right
Encourage the young to transition, keep parents in the dark,
If anyone objects, call them haters, what a lark!
We want citizens broke, struggling, and sore,
For resentment fuels the revolution we’re working for.
I ran for Senator, President too
Cheered by crowds, so dumb, who knew?
Then one day I was kidnapped by green men from outer space
They told me they had to save the human race
Their planet already ruined, earth the last stand
For Freedom, and Truth, and everything grand
They replaced the left half of my brain, returned me to earth.
To redeem my radical past I had to prove my worth.
Had to pretend to still be left, my country to save
I was elected president on a progressive wave
I used those green soldiers from Antares, declared martial law,
But couldn't rescue my country from the progressive claw
So I had to escape with the aliens, join their UFO
But all the galaxies were Woke, no place to go.
The Antarans looked grim; they would never sell their soul
So we went on a suicide mission into a black hole
To our great surprise, the black hole turned light
to a mirror universe, where left became right
Sure, my heart was now on the right of my chest
Just a small price to pay, to solve all the rest.
No crime in the cities, no locks needed on doors
Everyone clean and wholesome, Victorian mores
Families strong, with values to hold,
Not perfect, but a future of hope could unfold.
Categories:
antares, freedom, humor,
Form:
Lyric