Best Empyreal Poems

O Nebulae of Heart and Soul!
In infrared portrayal WISE,
your colors grace the stellar skies.
Have you a core celestial role?

Supernal presences you seem
that steal one’s fancy unawares,
far-off from earthly human cares,
inspiring a soulful dream.

Does music of the spheres resound
in utterness of heavens’ art
to beating of a...

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In ghostly skies a stellar glow
from erstwhile stars of long ago
that shone with splendor ere they died,
perchance were wished on starry-eyed,
still haunts in heavens’ spectral show.

We gaze with wonder from below,
amidst our scurries to and fro,
at panoramas mythified
in ghostly skies.

The winds of fame and fortune...

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Earth orbits 'round the Sun;
  Elliptical, her path.
Equinox, twice yearly,
  Evolves September, March.
Ecliptic plane of Sun
  Eclipses it with Moon...
Enchanting earthly view.


Sandra M. Haight

~3rd Place~
Contest: Pleiades E
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Judged: 09/21/2016


Rules: 
One word title starting with Letter E.  
7 lines all starting...

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The seven sisters’ supernal sight
was by sailors stellarly prized
in legendary dove-likened flight,
catasterism immortalized.

As mythical frieze empyreal
they appear in stargazers’ view
of the Pleiades ethereal 
fleeing in misty byways blue.

They’ve lent the cosmos fabled luster
ever since by the ancients found
being the nearest open cluster
astrally gravitation bound.

The firmament...

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From this empyreal kiss of glory
My soul desires never to wake up...
Beyond the touch of His garment
I am drawn closer to that embrace...
An embrace that keeps getting wider
The more I seek to be enwrapped...
Words can just never convey my awe
However much I try to express...
This...

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Born of the earth
To shine beneath the sun
Feel of the air
On my skin now basking in the breeze

Being a mortal
Keeping my soul within
To grow and drink of sweet waters
Thus bringing infinite goodness.

Years pass by 
And changes the grid
Bringing in changes in mind and body
To dwell...

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