Best Stargazing Poems
STARGAZING
I have seen forever, friend,
Written across dark skies,
In the planets, stars and galaxies
Whose light endlessly abides.
With mind as finger I trace the lines
The length of human history,
Yet, still the lights appear o’er head,
No universe a priori.
What stories might they tell us,
If we could only hear;
The sordid things that happen at night,
The secrets that we fear.
Lovers trapped in passion renewed
And dreams that wet the pillow.
Meteor showers and borealis,
Stolen kisses under the willow.
Many are the stars that shine
Through a punctured dome
And many are the souls they harbour
Who have no other home.
Gazing at the stars above
In cosmic darkness, snug,
Like gravity she draws me in.
I feel her tug, her gentle hug,
Yes, I have seen eternity
Written across dark skies
But never witnessed anything
Like forever in her starry eyes.
4/17/17
On this clear and cloudless night
I stand alone beneath the stars,
And gazing upward there I see
The cosmos staring back at me
I feel my heated breath escape
In raptured plumes of rising smoke,
And contemplate my earthly state –
How little do I really know
With frozen fingers here I pray,
When gazing on your vast array
Of shining spheres and roaming rocks,
That time for me will always stop.
Stargazing, I sense
the enduring universe
and my mortal self.
6/12/17
Day gives way to night
The darkening skies
Come alive
Magic flecks across the dark
Twinkling to their tune
Music unsung
A canvas built on dreams
Vibrating with wishes
Secrets told
Glimpsing into the unknown
Neither here nor there
Just being
Cosmic energy producing the mystery of heat and light,
they appear to twinkle yet they’re really still in sight.
Over one hundred billion galaxies
delight us with stars,
how much luminosity shows just how far
from earth they are.
They all carry different temperatures
and appear a different hue-
cooler stars appear red or orange and
hot stars white or blue.
Little protostars shine with each beautiful constellation,
it’s all such living proof of God’s miraculous imagination.
Evolving over billions of years each *
one different in shape- * *
The mystery remains knowing there *
is nowhere to escape. *
I find infinite beauty while daydreaming * *
about astronomy, *
and collectively curious about my native *
Aries astrology. *
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Luminous chemical reactions created such elegant allure,
and why is that some seem so clear when others are a blur?
P A T T E R N S of stars arranging my
destiny in my nightly dreams-
Formation of a solar system
flaming brilliant beams.
Glowing with wonder and gleaming in radiant light,
stargazing has brought an incandescent memory tonight.
Stargazing
April 17, 2017
I'm looking at this lil fella and thinking "reset." He's inquisitive cause his eyes are asking what is this place and who are these people? He'll probably be a stargazer like his daddy describing the characteristics of Neptune. I'd say you don't have a lot of time to get it right. Don't have a lot of time to turn on the light, but when I think about this lil fella's dad, I'm reminded how everything turns out o.k. Little stargazer, eyes so inquisitive, teach daddy love and all its characteristics. Dad, steer him from trouble, make sure he knows the NBA ain't for e'erbody, and a passing grade with 100% effort is an "A" in most teachers' grade books. Father and son with telescope in hand, look inward and know, greatness, is already apart of you. No matter what you do, never lose sight of who you are.
Love unlimited,
Stargazer #2
stellar companion
sparkles icily
a narcissistic twinkle
full moons night sky dance
orions belt warms our chilled eyes
stargazing with you
A poem I'll write about the delight,
Of the magic light that comes out at night,
Colourful and white and all of them bright,
A heavenly sight all bunched up so tight,
I hope that you might join in on my flight,
The chances are slight that you'll join my plight.
(Ten syllables per line)
For Rhymers Delight contest
Sponsored by: John Hamilton.
26~April~2017
Modern science has denuded
The stars and night sky of all myth and magic.
Knowing the facts in awe and wonder are no substitute for stories and legends of ancient cultures
To know that most starts are trillions of miles away,
Too far to ever visit is daunting and defeating.
It is humbling in the extreme, to know that our sun us one of 100 billion, trillion, trillion stars,
Out there in the unimaginable expanse of the Universe
One grain of sand on an endless beach stretching to infinity and beyond
How does knowing this help us?
How does learning the facts from science
That destroys all myths, legends and stories about the stars and night sky
Improve our quality of life, and our enjoyment of stargazing?
The answer is to revive the stories and explanations of ancient cultures
Who revered and respected the night sky.
Learning these stories and legends makes stargazing worthwhile and meaningful.
Here is an example from Australian Aboriginal Culture:
The sun is a woman, and the moon is a man.
The sun woman is a good person.
She arises every morning, decorates herself with ocha.
Then sets fire to the stringy bark tree.
Some of the red ocha drops off and falls on the clouds,
Making a beautiful red sky sunrise.
The sun woman carries the burning stringy bark tree,
Across the sky during the day, giving light and warmth to everyone on earth,
In the evening the woman comes down in the west,
She removes the red ocha and some falls off on the clouds
Creating the red sky at sunset.
She extinguishes the fire in her stingy bark tree.
Then she travels under the ground at night,
Back to her camp in the east, ready for the new day dawning.
The moon is a bad man
He refuses to hunt and provide food for his clan,
He is fat and lazy, and a nasty person
His wife and his son get so annoyed with him,
That they attack him with their axes,
Chopping more and more bits of him,
That is why you get the phases of the moon.
Crescents and half moons through the month
Eventually there is little left, and the moon dies
And stays stays dark for three nights,
Then he comes back to life, a new moon every month.
The bad man moon remains fat, lazy and nasty.
"Summer Nights: Stargazing"
Hold up let me flow when I used to know how to really pack those syllables,
When I'm stargazing falling in love found Aphrodite above,
When I was battling with Lucy jealous for my style,
At night I express my love when I saw the messages that lay to one,
When no peers saw the reverse spring you're the one that saw the love has done,
Stargazing at the bar lately, having those drugs lately,
For a party-life is the one with fun when I'm stargazing hallucinating that you could be the one,
When connections run deep that volt tingling your feet,
Baby, I'm going crazy when I know I belong among,
Lately, I've been missing the fun that life has shown me,
Once I'm done with the eight chapters I'll show you the masterpiece of love,
Been awhile since I shown anyone,
Baby, I'm stargazing this loud has me thinking,
When I know you must be going crazy questioning the wrongs,
When I displace the funds and the vision you didn't want any,
I'm stargazing when I fell in love with the art you loved,
When I found that seed in the garden the other day,
Away in the any, I have done when I found that new love,
Welcome to the Nowy Sezon,
I'm just beginning love.
Understanding WE may never physically be ....it continues to be a concept that I often contemplate...a mental picture in my head that I constantly visualize...I keep my DISTANCE...wondering if I'm even worth your time...admiring you from afar as if you were some shining star...*INTRIGUED*....feelings that I've fought in the past...they manifest until finally reaching the surface...*HOPELESS*...I'm unable to subdue what my truly heart desires...what's next?...I don't have an answer...but I feel this moment of clarity is necessary...for sanity's sake...
To Be Continued
CiD *Chivalry Is Dead*
"A Hopeful Cynic"
STARGAZING
Twinkling stars stare, shine and sparkle.
Star gazing causes miracle.
Astronomy or Astronaut,
Cosmology or Cosmonaut.
Simply wonderful, amazing.
All are products of star gazing.
04/16/17
Stargazing Contest by White Wolf
I gaze upon the velvet sky
Where stars are just a flicker to the eye
One seems brighter than the rest
Perhaps it's Mercury, glowing in the west
Venus too is seen above
It twinkles like the god of love
Each star I see leaves me in awe
Was that Jupiter I just saw?
Closer yet is the silver moon
In crescent mode or shining full
It conducts the celestial tune
The boundless sea feels its pull
The night sky is full of wonder
Its awe and beauty makes us ponder
On the splendour of the universe
As through the galaxies the stars disperse
4/17/17
I
Delicious evening
Furtive moon, modest stars
2023 but ancient Sky
II
Cooler, Eastern Cape evenings - delicious
Blazing hot days, 40 degrees Celsius
Give way to ancient ways, in the stars
Only a few tonight (why?) And Venus perhaps?
Two of the four stars in a box, outshone the rest
- when Moon escaped the cloudy hedge
A few belts with triune stars consoled me