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Best Star Poems

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


Premium Member May it be an Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration with our PS community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: star, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member There Is A Star With My Name On It
Oh! how love has bloomed —

fantasies like wild flowers plucked..
a collection of candlelight craves and desires
fill a wistful star-maiden’s basket
a bouquet of white asters from...

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Categories: star, desire, hope, night, romantic
Form: Free verse
Gold Star
I remember as a young boy, going out to play, I would sometimes see old Mr. Kimball, sitting on the steps of his porch, often...

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Categories: childhood, war, war, star,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Star Witness POTD
While we walked home from the movies, one moonlit starry night,
My friends and I talked and laughed, enjoying summer's delights.

The streets were quite silent, as...

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Categories: star, creation, fantasy, friendship, imagery,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member In The Stars
       Written in The Stars 

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Two hearts bleached by the sun
        A...

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Categories: star, fantasy, love, muse, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Stars
Under the Stars

Breathtaking
    poetic passions, 
         lavender skies
      ...

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Categories: star, autumn, love, poetry, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Starlight
Starlight

As sunset fades from pink to violet
And twilight skies show trees in silhouette
Our heaven's open vault of diamonds shine
In awestruck twinkling glimmers so divine.

Reflections from...

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Categories: heaven, sky, star, sunset,
Form: Romanticism
Asteroid Gravity Graced


     Asteroid


You were out of this world 
named for the Perseids
the meteor 
that exploded in two striking the blue 
between the...

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Categories: dog, star,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Swarovski Sunset
When the first glimpse 
of silver crescent
sprinkles citrine dust,
sparkling pink brooks 
spring forth, 
flowing through 
emerald green forests.
Moss covered Pine
trees spread their branches, 
reaching towards
the...

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Categories: destiny, dream, star, sun,
Form: Free verse
Diamond in the Sky
A dead star that inspired this poem--the companion of the star 55 Cancri, in the constellation of Cancer the Crab--has now shrunk to only about...

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Categories: star,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member On Such Divine Evenings
Aye, Summer-tide ...

On such divine evenings, thus, are perfect odes not freely spun?
The Perseids, dancing their jigs - evanescent stripes of golden ire,
under a tapestry...

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Categories: star, august, eve, joy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Butterfly Nebula
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...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: star, angel, beauty, courage, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So I may dream
Let us curry favor in dog star's
splendid laughing light 
bring the crash of passion's waves
through two arms held tight. 

I carry your wishes in love's
knapsack,...

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Categories: heart, sleep, song, star,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Cosmos Configurator
When I gaze far off into the night sky
The chaos is not pleasing to the eye.
Seems there was never an overall plan
When the beginning of...

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Categories: fantasy, space, old, star,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Spider songs
Blades of grass, wet under foot, insect eyes  
Dusk, offset by the cricket orchestra 
Muted and receding into the trees and bushes,
Tickled by the...

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Categories: star, animal, girl, metaphor, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Devil's Tide
I looked up at a silver moon 
Peering through a cloud of misty gloom 
As we sailed across the Atlantic Sea 
That fateful night in...

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Categories: star, adventure, angel, june, life,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Pass the Peace Pipe
In the twilight spirits come to play,
listen closely to what they have to say.

In the early dawn, they will sit with you,
and greet the sun...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spiritual, star, sun,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Supernova Bossa Nova
Now I’m ninety solar masses and I grow as I accrete
all the inter-stellar gasses near my neighbors when we meet.
My doctor says I’ve grown too...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dance, introspection, science, star,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Soulful Journey Of Shooting Stars
They soar through space-scapes of
divine milky whorls and blue halos;
incandescent dandelion wishes
blown across nocturnal fields -
illuminating the imaginative expanse 

between eternities of cosmic dark ages...

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Categories: star, beauty, destiny, heaven, inspirational,
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: sky, space, star, universe,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Cradle Song
Cradle Song

Sleep now!  Oh sleep sweet child divine!
Sleep now ‘neath a bright star’s light
Rest now Heaven’s prince!
Dreaming through the night
Angel’s praises sing your lullaby.

How...

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Categories: star, christmas, jesus, Lullaby, song,
Form: Lyric
ELEMENTAL DESIGNS
ELEMENTAL DESIGN

Hydrogen to Helium
A fusion formed by gravity
A carbon-based delirium
Molecularly infinite energy

An ancient discipline known as alchemy
We’re consciousness - the explosion - amorous 
We dream...

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Categories: star, heaven, moon, science, science
Form: Free verse
How You Make The Stars Hush
I might forget you for a little while

but when the last desert hues of sunset roses

wrap the bareness of these arms

Out of nowhere and without...

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Categories: love, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member STARS LIGHT, THEY SHINE BRIGHT
STARS LIGHT, THEY SHINE BRIGHT

Glowing gems that dress the night,
I yearn to know your brightness art
blinking quick, blinking slow
my running thoughts you make them go...

From...

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Categories: star, beautiful, family, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme