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Best Orbital Poems

Below are the all-time best Orbital poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of orbital poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: orbital, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Final Frontier
Death, the final frontier?

A nest is round.

Our nest the Earth is round like all the stars and planets.

All things are orbital, even time and space.

Let...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: orbital, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shooting Stars
A spectacular show enlightens heavens above
In ephemeral musings of burning meteoroids
Mimicking likeness of falling ornamental stars--
Beaming streaks of rainbow-colors earthbound,

When earth crosses trajectory of comet's...

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Categories: orbital, sky, space, star, universe,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent...

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Categories: orbital, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
Night Sky
Behold, a crack in the sky...
Its a star ! And then it multiplies...
A thousand million
 silver twinkling confetti...
Galactical milk in celestial ballet
Your white bedazzle takes...

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Categories: orbital, lost love, missing you,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Night Sky
Goddess of love doth shine bright in the skies
  As one planet blushes red among the stars
 The moon, surrounded by twinkling fireflies
 Looms...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: orbital, moon, night, stars,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Wabi-Sabi
"Dead leaves lay still, even the last flower is withered: yet there is a beauty in decayed imperfection." Taken from a quote by _Constance La...

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Categories: orbital, beauty,
Form: Narrative
Cafe Terrace At Night
CAFE   TERRACE   AT   NIGHT           (Van  Gogh)


Orbital focus of...

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Categories: orbital, art,
Form: Free verse
Softly Spoken Magic Spell
Amorphous face fold
Half a diamond bowl
Spoon of flight
Peace for thought

Collectible platforms
Metaphase approach
Fractioned subjective slides
Schizophrenic mathematical
Blanks

Polyphonic bubble meal
Psychedelic breakfast blue
Like orbital vertex cubes
Cotton-stone vocal quake
Delighted taste

[Yummy...

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Categories: orbital, confusion
Form: I do not know?
The Sun Rises- -The Moon Sets
These were set in motion from the beginning of time.
Heavens abound in each of their glory, power sublime.
Every excursion that they set upon revolves in...

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Categories: orbital, life, nature, passion, people,
Form: Acrostic
Categories: orbital, appreciation, beautiful, moon, night,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Celestial Twirl
Planets in orbit
Some big and some small
Beings from outer space
Some named, others not
Discoveries made

Orbital spin
Masterfully
Perfect timing
In retrograde

Planets sway
Comets fall
Earth rotate

Unflawed
Refined 

Sphere



Contest: The Universe
Placed: 8th...

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Categories: orbital, science, universe,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Shun Spots
Hot zones of danger,
dark places
where dense hearts go
Hearts that are cold as ice
Roll the dice ... 
take a chance on fatal corona exploration
Go ghetto orbital
and...

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Categories: orbital, dark, metaphor, society, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Forgotten Spaceman
Lunar eclipse plunges me in shadow.
Orbital, I spin in the dark.
Nebulas, I am insignificant amongst many,
Extra-terrestrial, alone and apart.
Limbic, I drift with creation.
Interstellar, I reunite...

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Categories: orbital, anxiety, fear, loneliness, loss,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Until Leaves Murmur
Two leaves flutter so naturally, 
wings hanging free… timeless in a swirl
on the curving breasts of night. And they dance,
dance without talking 
unto altitudes of...

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Categories: orbital, dance, language,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs