Best Nebula Poems

What yonder lies in distant sky,
and looks like lovely butterfly?
A cloud of gas that iodized
whose blazing beauty mesmerized.

Throughout the universe serene,
in Scorpius she can be seen,
this nebula of orange and green,
the stellar pride of heaven’s preen.

These particles that crystalized,
with nature’s beauty harmonized;
this bright celestial butterfly
that...

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Butterfly Nebula

Far away in the night
A sky full of stars
A song full of notes
A story full of words
And, most importantly…
A poem, full of Light!



I can not leave a picture, but if I could it would be the first one. #1 at the top of the...

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Shimmering over a glassy sea, a moonlight carpet beams.
My walkway high to a starlit sky of memories from my dreams.

There mighty Taurus, rip-snortin’ bull, lowers his horns for battle.
Naked on his shoulders Seven Sisters ride side-saddle.

Dazzling diamonds, blue-white ice,
blazing through nebulosity.
Merope mocked and mooned me...

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The word of anger spoken by the square
mouth of the dark, an interstellar swear,

addressed to who knows whom. A scarlet curse,
a four-horned furiousness, which in the journal
kept by the apathetic universe
looks like an inner breakup, an external 
candescent flash of light, a red-hot dozen
of exclamation...

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HOURGLASS NEBULA

A masterpiece — the Creator dabbles in time
with windblown hues of crimson bands, narrow
neck like the green eye of a nebula monster.

Painted in amazing red shifts,
scurrying away from the earth,
as the hubble chases it.

The shape of an hourglass
ne’er turned over
except by curious minds.

Little scientists...

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After the remote Big Bang cosmic chaos
in infinite void primal dust of matter chose
to cluster in captivating clumps so designed
in ethereal forms of nebula defined.

The cosmic winter’s prolong dark night
illumined in the universal primeval light
of unique stellar creation of sprawling galaxy 
ushered sparkling spring of...

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This worrying view
Today on earth
Is it the end of life
For all it's worth

An angry sky
Overhead
Cold blues
Atmosphere dead

Clouds of gas
From interstellar space
Stratosphere breached
Alien face

But out of the hue
A face in the clouds
Nebula seeker
Her shroud crowds

This nebulae
Of particle dust
Energy of gas
The seeker combusts

Angry exchange
In our skies above
Two...

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Nebula
     My new life
Singular 
     My one love
A fine face
     In your artwork
In your embrace     
     There’s no holding back
     
In...

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All those clusters and dreams.
Giant footprints in the dark,
Watching over us, sharing our anima.
Somewhere, lost in your nebula, energy stays, hiding,
Driven by desire,
Pushing through.

I love this exploration into past and future.
Time is only an equation,
Billions of light years before and all around us,
Seen through dark...

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If I were
an astronomer,
a follower of Papa
Galileo through 
th'expanding years,
I should be
less confounded by
that vortex 
in the sky
first spotted
when a learned bro
peeked through
his viewing lens.

"Our home"
he said, "is bigger
than we thought!"
and thus he kicked
the boot of Italy
into a cosmic ocean
where galactic islands drift,

defying that old...

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Rosette Nebula

In the cosmos where infinity shares 
enigmatic luminosity of stellar space
there dwells a rose of divine grace.

This Nebula in our Milky Way, bares
a magic unseen by the naked eye
in the darkness of our indigo sky. 

Five thousand light years from earthly cares 
in constellation...

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If I could carve out
the words in the sky
to tell you how much
I love you
they still wouldn’t be enough...

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Nebula nights,
Upon starry skies,
Capture my soul.
        /|\...

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On a planetoid in our galaxy
lives a being of illumination;
spinning stardust from her palms,
in colored chromatic ecstasy.

Like ribbons flowing from her hands
that whip and whirl in lunar-play;
she crafts rainbows in motion,
electric neon swirling bands.

Brilliant cascade of locomotion
bobbing lights in outer space;
look up to the heavens...

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The Horse Nebula
rises from flames, forged
from Milky Way core.
Saturn flanks his right,
Jupiter his left --
Gods girded for war.

Lightning bolts whistle
above the red glare
for all to beware.
Dark stallion ascends,
riderless, regal,
through the rarified air.




Photo taken by the author at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, July 29, 2019,...

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