Best Starburst Poems
above the trees
and distant black mountains
each night
the all of creation
starburst!
Dave Austin
This dreamlike creature beside me in bed
With long golden tresses and lips of red
Eyes like blue sapphires and skin like satin
All packaged up in a womanly wrapping
She raises her body as we both breathe as one
She caresses my face, the passion's begun
There's no turning back on this magical ride
We ascend ever skyward, we're burning inside
We explode with emotion enveloped in love
As we ride on a zephyr to the heaven's above
A crescendo, then a starburst, we rest on a cloud
Proclaiming devotion as we sing it out loud
© Jack Ellison 2013
And then I saw it
From the forest canopy
A starburst of sun
Purple orange light painting fiery pregnant horizon
Blood-moon slides behind the red yellow sun
Enchanting sky births eclipse a black monsoon.
FOR SIJO CONTEST SPONSOR WILLIAM KEKAULA
10/4/2021
Exclamation point
starburst in my sky
you,there out of reach
A galaxy, the type that’s spiral barred,
is based in Horologium the Clock,
whose circle center is profusely starred
with infant clusters in celestial flock.
Its ‘circumnuclear’ galactic core
so vast in span it’s said to be unique
is known as starburst ring, with open door
to poetry’s ineffable mystique.
The myriad creations brought to mind
with solar systems newly born at times
begetting worlds for beings redesigned
are limned in musings, rimmed in lyric rhymes
where mortals make a heaven or a hell,
too many for a sonnet’s lines to tell.
~ Harley White
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Some sources of inspiration were the following…
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512 in Many Wavelengths…
Hubble Unveils a Galaxy in Living Color…
Image and info ~ NGC 1512 Wikipedia
Image: The inner ring of NGC 1512 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
Credit: HST/NASA/ESA.
Wikipedia: NGC 1512 is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 38 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Horologium. The galaxy displays a double ring structure, with one ring around the galactic nucleus and another further out in the main disk. The galaxy hosts an extended UV disc with at least 200 clusters with recent star formation activity. NGC 1512 is a member of the Dorado Group
A barred spiral galaxy in the Giraffe
has one of the arms curled in front of its core
where dust laden lanes in the grouping outpour
as Hubble has shown it for earthlings’ behalf.
Some sort of encounter perhaps came along
for bent NGC Two One Four Six once took,
which lent it that loopy anomalous look,
engendering forces colossally strong.
So lively in midwifing star births is it
that this galaxy earned the term starburst kind
like clusters of blooms Mother Nature designed
in tropical gardens terrene to visit
or namely the clerodendrum called starburst
which effloresces in a canopy bright
as do starburst galaxies at cosmic height
with budding sidereal young being nursed.
The galaxy’s less large than Milky Way’s size
just slightly, they say, to astronomers’ eyes,
with starry creation in lavish supplies
thus adding to worlds in stelliferous skies.
What habitants will these celestials see fit
to bring to fruition as creatures, to wit,
allow them to flourish as features permit
then blossom as lifeforms evolved bit by bit?
About eighty thousand light-years end to end
it lies ninety million light-years from our place,
this mortal abode of humanity’s race
that’s wending its oft wayward way round the bend,
or so it seems, though there are stargazer dreams
as reveries reaching existence’s plane
whence deeper dimensions of being may reign
embracing the whole of reality’s streams
in sensory oneness with all great and small,
beyond unenlightenment’s treacherous thrall,
a doomed irredeemable fate to forestall
which sadly might ever more likely befall.
We dwell in a realm where delusions benight,
enraptured in spell making wrong appear right
with vision too blurry to notice our plight.
Such times find it vital to seek out the light.
~ Harley White
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Info ~ NGC 2146, a starburst galaxy in Camelopardalis (Anne’s Astronomy News)…
when will people of the world get it right
no more war's , no more fights
one family , one planet
mother earth feels all this negativity
and doesn’t understand it
we are all native to the earth
we are all family from our time of birth
shouldn’t life have more value and worth
the time has come to re-direct our search
we won't find what we're looking for creating enemies
solutions are what we need with peaceful possibilities
all life in the universe depend on us now
we have to make it happen some way, some how
we can make it ,if we try
you can make it ,if you try
just try a little harder, dig a little deeper
inside yourself, you’ve got to know who you are
everybody is a star, everybody is a star
attitude, gratitude, fortitude,to your magnitude
how bright does that light shine in you
everybody is a star, you just got to know who you are.
Open for Editing
seventeen
rock concert mania
star studded eyes