Best Stellar Poems
Listen to the silence
of the stellar Luna,
she sings sonatas true
for the twinkling jewels~
laced in promises blue.
Listen to the silence~
painted in cosmic silk,
in the absence of strife,
she dreams in her silver
glazed labyrinth of life.
Listen to the silence,
when emeralds kiss threads
of sapphires sparkling bright
to harmonize her choir,
with mellifluous light
Listen to the silence,
you'll feel healing heartbeats,
drifting through aching skies,
in sombre hues of woes,
sealed between unheard sighs.
Time's not sleeping but forever creeping
Breathe to live while the blood is hot;
in shadow dreams lies incessant weeping.
Heart beats like the clock, never sleeping
love burns with flames during a nightly walk;
Time's not sleeping but forever creeping.
A moon rising high in this twilight fleeting
with a teary haze, while the clock tic tocks;
in shadow dreams lies incessant weeping.
Love kind and true, now absent and fleeting,
the full moon exhales within a lunar clock;
Time's not sleeping but forever creeping.
Unto a midnight waltz, as feelings seeping
in the stellar ballet stars twinkle in shock;
in shadow dreams lies incessant weeping.
Starved as your ego continues shrieking
devouring hearts within a devious stalk.
Time's not sleeping but forever creeping
in shadow dreams lies incessant weeping.
1/30/2021
All Yours (Jan 30) Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand
A candy shaped heart
Sweet sounding words "I Love You"
You are mine to taste
A rose there in thorns
Light in Pink Highlights dark reds
Enhanced in True Love
Stuttering my speech
Is it Heaven wrapped Stellar
This kiss you gave me?
When time's frame glints across an endless cloud
Deepening the blue of serenity,
My eyes unveil this mystical tableau
As life's creation lingers to bestow;
This moment radiant , graced by life's flow…
And I, a stellar being, am enticed
By my physical essence so engraved,
Yet formed through Spirit's pattern--a god child
Endowing peace through a realm of oneness,
While breaths ascend layers of earthly trails
Journeying higher than twilight’s soft flame,
An infinite species, I learn to emerge
In a blend of human genes... and divine mold.
Any Poem Written On April 4th, 5th or 6th 2016
Sponsor: Laura Loo
Posted 4/5/2016
A billion blazing Suns that shine for me,
One heart beats within their symphony…
My eyes expand to the morning glimmer,
For sorrows fade a decrescending dimmer…
Splendour is their shine of Eternal Elysium,
Fulgor fusion fires of hydrogen into helium…
Luminosity lusters of a beacon brilliant birth,
Scintillating sunbeams surfacing on the Earth…
Nucleosynthesis nears the atmospheric aurora,
Photosynthesis prances with the frolicking flora…
Gravitational graves within the blink of an eye,
Stellar Suns are reborn as they surely die…
I’m sunbathing nude as the soft sands seduce,
I wait the nebular night as the Stars transduce.
March.15.2020
A Star's Heartbeat
Sponsored by:
Chantelle Anne Cooke
Placed 4'th...Thank You
Here’s a starry poem one might call ekphrastic
about an exploding fireball fantastic
from a ‘nova’, imaged with time-lapse clarity,
all the more remarkable for the rarity
of tracking its expansion– which researchers say
engulfs a place in outer space in just a day
as great as where the orbit of our Earth holds its sway,
at a distance of fifteen thousand light years away,
passing that of Jupiter in less than two weeks–
through some challenging magnification techniques…
Six telescopes collaborated in the huge task
of measuring its size and shape, so as to unmask
the colossal ferocity, albeit remote,
of its “dramatic process”, to astronomers quote.
The eruption that occurred was in the location
of Delphinus– Latin for Dolphin– Constellation.
What causes these spectacular events to arise?
When any of the two of a binary star dies,
as a consequence of its empyrean demise,
it becomes ‘white dwarf’ companion to the larger one.
Then this parasitic partner has some fiendish fun…
In some sort of star-struck, degenerate devotion,
it siphons enough hydrogen to form an ocean
on its surface, till it reaches the critical mass
that will make a brobdingnagian blast come to pass.
Now this formerly faint star system takes center stage
to indeed ‘against the dying of the light, rage, rage’…
A tremendous fireball is hurled into the skies–
so brilliant that it’s visible with unaided eyes…
Thus it burns out its bright celestial futurity
in that bumpy ride to recurrent obscurity.
Novae may play second fiddle to the ‘super’ kind–
their bigger stellar cousins– in the popular mind,
still these marvelous phenomena my awe inspire–
as does that Dylan Thomas villanelle I admire…
But it was wild man Lewis who captured them entire,
when he belted out, “Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!”
~ Harley White
For centuries of ancient thought
cosmic harmonies have been sought
in the vast eternal motion
of the grand galactic ocean.
To some the twinkling sky inspires
poems about celestial choirs.
But if those serenades occur
it’s just as if they never were,
since sounds of stars cannot be heard
‘tis said, not even by a bird,
nor bat or dolphin, beast or man;
for frequencies are higher than
any species of mammal can
detect in auditory span.
Albeit space may ‘silent’ be,
the waves traverse that spatial sea,
which scientists convert to sound.
Plus other systems have been found.
With asteroseismology,
a useful methodology,
“starquake” flickers of light can turn
into sonancy to discern.
Still, stars are sounding on their own,
with song motifs as yet unknown,
Aural hums and thrums they render
symphonize great Nature’s splendor
in astro-plasma pulses strange
from universe’s tonal range,
like resonance of bells immense
ariose in a stellar sense,
with strains, refrains sidereal,
majestic sounds ethereal.
Is there a unifying theme
melodious in heavens’ scheme?
If only humans had the ears
to hear the music of the spheres!
~ Harley White
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“Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having its own function and character, contributes to the whole.” ~ Pythagoras
Inspiration derived from article with image, “Have researchers discovered the sound of the stars?”
Stellar Lady
from Pleiade's Moon 9 she materialized
goodwill and peace she sermonized
we asked her to lunch
poached pears she did munch
then spun like a top and vaporized!
"That's not my elephant!" You could hear her say,
As quickly she ran, caught on film, heading this way.
The 2nd graders all laughed as they watched the movie,
Many of them thought it was really "Groovee."
For this was a film shot of their teacher Ms. Ella,
Whose performance in it was anything but stellar.
She was running for her life as the big bull feigned his charge,
The one she was supposed to ride wasn't nearly that large.
But it made for a good chuckle when she showed her class
The home movie of her trip to India's Kyber Pass.
Soon it was lunchtime...the cafeteria line was fun
As they laughed about how fast their teacher could run.
Spaghetti was on the bill of fare
Passing it up...one wouldn't dare.
Because they would need all their energy tonight
They had a test coming on the Bill of Rights.
Ms. Ella was a good teacher and her kids liked her a lot
But her tests were difficult as if she had some plot.
She would send them home with work to do,
But they learned from her film, not everything is work too.
Its fingerprint of astral trace
singles out sidereal face
amongst the heavenly array
of stellar orbs in star ballet
that dance in metamorphous space.
The light dispersals limn with grace
celestial body in its place
for earthly mortals, to portray
its fingerprint.
Yet nature’s flux persists in pace,
as death takes all in vast embrace
despite what star one’s cast to play,
plus humankind will fade away
and time shall by and by erase
its fingerprint…
~ Harley White
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The poem is a rondeau ~ a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 lines (plus the phrase twice) on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
Inspiration for poem and image from article ~ “Hubble and a Stellar Fingerprint”…
Showcased at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300.
Located just under 2,300 light-years from Earth, this star displays prominent emission lines, meaning that the star’s light, dispersed into a spectrum, shows up as a rainbow of colors marked with a characteristic pattern of dark and bright lines. The characteristics of these lines, when compared to the “fingerprints” left by particular atoms and molecules, can be used to reveal IRAS 12196-6300’s chemical composition.
Ubiquitous artificial smiles and plastic hearts
cosmic curse escalating a decline in civilization
Acting upon fake camaraderie - leaves you swimming with sharks
In a world with light - guided by personificated moirai
negative minds impersonate the darkness of the equinox
Those lost in fantasy struggle to adapt to free will thought
Those enlightened with intelligence constantly reflect
like the way of the mirror
reflects two sides of infinitive imagination
reminding us to be crystalabaster clear
in our minds merging with the reflection of our destination
reflecting the courage we need gathered in times tear
quenching and awakening our reflected participation
as we reflectively writestimonials showing no fear
with peace in every pen stroke felt by the constellations
as our ancestors concur we're making the song sweeter
and nod in approval we can sample a demonstration
as we listened intently a startree began to appear
taking us into the umbilical cord of the universes fascination
with life as love gratitude and compassion begin to near
light blankets our spirits without any hesitation
immediately we remember why we were brought here
to hear the heartbeats rhythm in the threads
treading lightly upon lights lightning steps
guiding us to the steeple of salvation
shining through our transparent energy
Celestial jewel of eye delight
treasure from God Who grants faith’s sight
beauteously radiant, ceaselessly bright
firmament wonder driving astronomic flight
galaxy ornament mystifying constellation gazers’ might
such is my stellar power, reaching from outer space height ---
--- illumining your poetic muse against visual blight!
As a great light* with valued luminescence
star am I affecting solar system’s iridescence
created out of the Lord’s omnipotence and omniscience
from me plants get chlorophyll for nutritious essence
being the sun: electricity source, force of industrial excellence…
such is my triumphant solar experience midst life rays' influence ---
--- sharing with you heaven’s opulence!
*Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
July 7, 2020
3rd place, "Second Chances NA poems of 2020 Part III" Contest
Sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke; judged on 10/6/2020.
No longer I needed,
The ladder to climb;
The space is wide open,
The ascension is mine.
A burning sensation,
The splatters of stars;
A jewel from Venus,
Descends down my sight.
The glittering mansion,
Unfolds as I ride;
With a group of observers,
While journeying the night.
Shapes of silver petals,
An unknown frontier;
The space is wide open,
I'm the stellar deer.
Nebulous dust cloud
Embryonic worlds forming
Chaos bears a child.
Stars are the other amazing suns,
probably more awesome than our own,
they must have many planets spinning around them...
there are many more unknown worlds invisible to us;
on the clearest night: gaze far and watch them
as they astound us with a stellar manifestation!
Since childhood stars fascinated me with a mystery so intriguing
and wondered who was that great Designer and Being
who had made them to hang in infinite space;
they surely had a specific purpose to accomplish by diminishing
some of the darkness and make the observer feel safe...
oh, starry August nights are quite amazing!
Stars like the Earth will outlast all ages to puzzle and dazzle minds;
how can Science declare that creation is a myth, or even a lie
and deny God's existence with animosity?
Why haven't they seen a stellar manifestation through a believer's eyes?
I exult His exuberant designs of creativity
and delight in everything from a tiny flower to an immense star-lit sky!