Best Solar System Poems
Blanketed in crimson, Mars glows with fire,
while Venus sparkles with deep medallion-
The twilit moon shining in fierce desire,
each planet aligns into a stallion.
Jupiter is the largest sphered planet,
it acts as a strong mirrored reflection-
Pluto’s surface is rough like harsh granite,
the sun and Neptune make a connection.
Our home galaxy is the Milky Way,
containing two hundred billion bright stars-
The comet soars like a keen castaway,
bringing stunning life to earth from afar.
The pure wonder of the solar system,
brings phenomenal wonder and wisdom.
May 11, 2017
I am looking for myself in the center
of my own solar system
The thoughts just drifts with the wind
The senses are united with the truth
Life forms my heart
Childhood memories in my soul
wonderful happiness
Blue as the sky
and as a coral sea
How the ocean reflects sunset colors game
The night may let me in
in a world where the stars play
I can not explain it
but it warms me
and makes me whole
13.09.2014
A-L Andresen :)
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- Thanks for my 6th place in the contest :)
Solar sails are set--
Stores secured, status shows green.
Surfing Saturn's rings.
Celestial spheres...
marvels of the cosmos but
marbles for the Gods.
Large and circular; full of light
distributes to its nine orbits
each unique in existence.
Among his siblings Mercury is fast,
Compared to Neptune who is always last.
Venus is always extremely hot,
While life-supporting Earth has a comfortable spot.
Mars’ surface is very rocky,
About his size Jupiter is cocky.
Saturn is always surrounded by his rings,
While Uranus is strange because of many things.
With each other the planets compete,
With the special things each of them keeps.
And each of them has compensation,
For something each has wanted since its creation.
Mercury’s small size is compensated by his speed,
While Venus’ poisonous atmosphere makes beauty her greed.
Earth may be a planet considered small,
Yet this blue and green marble sustains all.
Mars is much smaller than Earth,
But canyons and mountains are his mirth.
Although Jupiter may take years to orbit the Sun,
His large size gives him lots of fun.
Saturn is inferior to Jupiter in more than one way,
But his lovely rings and moons surround him and he feels okay.
Uranus feels odd, spinning on his side,
Around the Sun, he is compensated by a lazy ride.
Though Neptune is known for his furious tides,
At least he does not roll on his side.
The planets orbit one of many stars,
Like the center of a racing track circled by cars.
They circle a yellow star having lots of fun,
Their parent star known as the Sun.
I walked along the street one day to see what I could find,
I looked for something interesting to stimulate my mind.
When suddenly appeared before me right out from the sky,
a funny-looking alien with three arms and one eye.
He said to me "How do you do?" and tried to shake my hand,
I jumped so far into the air I thought I'd never land.
But when I did I held my breath and reached out with my arm,
knowing that a handshake would never bring me harm.
He shook my hand with suction cups and felt a little cold,
I thought of how my friends would not believe I was so bold.
After we were introduced he took me to his ship,
and asked me if I'd like to take with him a little trip.
I nervously agreed to go and worried about my mother,
then thought again about getting even with my little brother.
He too had said he'd met a man from way out in the stars,
who took him to a place where eight-year-olds can drive in cars.
So off we went up to the sky to places never seen,
the alien was quite a guide (I'm glad he wasn't mean!).
He showed me all the planets, from number one to nine,
and showed me one we haven't found and said it could be mine.
He took me to the dark side of the rock we call the moon,
(It’s cold and dark and scary; I said, "We couldn't leave too soon!")
Next, we circled 'round the sun which only took a minute,
we got so close at one point that I thought we'd land right in it!
The sun was hot the moon was cold and Earth looked really cool,
but worried I became because I should have been in school.
I told my friend the Alien "we should be getting back."
he said to me in some strange tone "Aarf gargle giggle gack!"
I guess he knew just what I meant for off to Earth we shot,
he landed in the schoolyard; (I'll show you all the spot.)
Then once again he shook my hand and simply said "goodbye",
then jumped inside his spaceship, and flew up to the sky.
This trip I took I won't forget and hope someday I'll see,
my friend the Big Green Alien who was so kind to me.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system
Which spins in a counter clockwise movement.
For me, her behaviour is clear like a crystal,
Out of all the planets -she is the only woman.
Fear eats the solar system orbiting the hasty heart,
consumes essential logic and the reason of the mind,
corrodes a sense of clarity and strikes the sighted blind,
sucks blood out of the judgement bones until they fall apart.
Drives nails into the coffin that is buried premature,
confuses with an apprehensive virus of infection,
snaps it's jaws at empty air and advocates rejection
of all that is defined unknown, of all that is unsure.
Fear eats the solar system, hungry and a touch insane,
yet spares a lone manoeuvre that the hasty heart can do,
to hold and look into itself and to itself be true,
for fear faced and laid to rest allows the truth remain.
And in that truth the future lies entwined with what is known,
a context fashioned sensitive to love and life and faith,
is it to be or not to be, reality or wraith?
the answers lie in each of us, in each of us alone.
(TW : Abusive marriage )
So we are here in this garden less green than the ones you promised .
Oh you say this ?
you the girl with eyes browner than the skin , 5 feet of womanhood , 7 inches of literature .( says the man who plays the man)
How I wish I could revisit those 5 inches !
(Says the girl who plays the wife , who could revolve around the world but revolved around this holy fire less holy more fire )
You , weren't you my partner satellite moon ? Or were you another mercury ?
I thought you were sugar , you'd mix in hot water when I'd make tea for you but Alas !
You were always mercury , meant to vapourize and
then suddenly enter my body to cause sleep disorders and nervous breakdowns .
So I have a question paper like the ones they give in schools to fool children .
1)Is this my monologue like every other or will you reply ?
2)Are you dead or you pretend to be ?
3)Can I your wife play dead ?
and if I play dead , will you make food for chotu and manage the laundry ?
4)Can wives play dead or become "Plutos" , leaving the solar system with its fireball and mercury leaving no trace of cool winds and dwarfism ?
I have a last questions to ask , like Neil Armstrong had for moon .
5)Did the moon turn out to be what he expected or did he find craters ?
If he found craters I would travel to the past in a time machine or my washing machine and tell him that he was lucky to find craters on the moon , I never found a moon except for karvachauth , the festival they make us celebrate to see the real moon and then see the mercury that appeared like moon but wasn't .
Though I am not allowed to answer you back but let me open ,
ans) I , Sarla , the wife of a man who is just a man wasn't lucky enough to find a moon when I was sent away from my brown and blue earth with grasslands green and sky as blue as lapis lazuli
I wish I could play dead or
extremely volatile like you do but there are clothes to wash ,
lies to be recited in the ears of children when they ask for stories .
How I wish I could recite them poems from literature but Alas !
I am Sarla and I am just 5 feet tall , tall enough to remain invisible in this solar system .
#Tragedy #Society #Struggle
I study eyes, eye's only mind sees.
Inside those orbs a little
protogenic me crawls away.
The tiny creature is going back to God,
he remains cohesive in a residual way.
A solar system is watching;
its dying sun is a question mark.
Jupiter and Planet X
are returning to cosmic whale sperm.
Earth has got too big;
that old brass and leather engine
that once made frames for mirrors
is now smoke.
Not at the beginning or the end,
I am doing 'mind' somewhere else.
I am limping along toward a Gas Giant
some have perhaps misnamed.
Cont'd from Seesaw into Space: Part 1
Round the Sun I catapulted
and away from it I sped.
Then I saw another planet.
Mars! I thought — the one that's red.
Mars was crisscrossed by long channels.
On each pole was a plateau.
And I wondered if some creatures
might have lived here long ago.
After Mars I flew with caution
past the belt of asteroids.
These were rocks of different sizes
that an astronaut avoids.
Coming up were outer planets.
Jupiter was first in line.
It was huge: all gas and liquid —
like a murky, swirling brine.
It had many moons around it
and seemed very, very hot.
What I couldn't help but notice
was its red gigantic spot.
After Jupiter came Saturn.
There I saw amazing things:
Clinging to this giant planet,
were enormous rocky rings.
Then came Uranus and Neptune:
both were very large and green.
From this far the Sun looked smaller:
like a yellow jellybean.
In the end I swung by Pluto —
a dwarf planet under ice.
It was cold and dark and lonely —
not a place that I’d call nice.
It was time to start the journey
back to Earth where life is good.
How I missed my favorite planet!
This was what I understood.
Even though the other planets
are so interesting to see,
There is nothing living on them
while the Earth is home to me.
As I landed on the seesaw,
I said, "Jessica, my friend,
Can you beat that jump, I wonder?"
She replied: "I can't." The end.
Mars is showing off, Jupiter complained to Zeus.
Don’t share all your woes, Zeus said into his juice.
Jupiter is making fun of the rest of us, Mars pouted back.
Zeus rolled his eyes and said “make fun of him without tact!
That never works! Whined Mars, who is angry most of the time.
Neptune and Saturn were tired of hearing this planet whine.
Can’t you make him stop? Near-sighted Neptune to Saturn said.
How would I do it? Drop him out of the ether onto his head?
They chuckled at this and told Earth their little joke.
Earth rolled her eyes; she was sick of having nine brother folk.
I doubt that Dad cared, she said. Venus ran over to hear.
Mars was now as angry as ever, and plotting danger and fear.
Sun looks smaller from there,
Arid and extremely windy.
Thick atmosphere, floats on water,
Unfathomable in our milky way.
Rings made of chunks of rock and ice,
No true surface, nowhere to stand.
Date of submission: 16/05/2021