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Premium Member Nebula the Cosmic Magician

Cosmos magician, gorgeous nebula of rainbow colors.
My eyes are dazzled, by her unbelievable beauty.
Honored, I revere her magnificence, as I peek into the telescope.
Seeing this nebula move not at all, though I know she is.

Cosmos magician, gorgeous nebula of rainbow colors.
An interstellar beginning or a super nova end?
No way to tell. Like humans, stars begin and end the same way.
Delighting the high-powered telescope in the planetarium.

Cosmos magician, gorgeous nebula of rainbow colors.
I take another peek, holding my breath, amazed at her beauty.
Fantastic colors of this nebula delight and entice imagination
I hope she is at the beginning of her life cycle.

Cosmos magician, gorgeous nebula of rainbow colors.
Dust, hydrogen and helium, swirling interstellar galactically. 
Twisting and turning in a fog with other ionized gases
No matter her journey, I marvel at her optimism, and her grace.


Premium Member falling

My last Thursday class is over - my class-week is over.

Looking back at the science building we’d just left,
the hallway looked dark, like the throat of an animal,
the people snaked out like a tongue, the archway
seemed like a mouth - I shivered and looked away.

Lisa laughed, and my senses returned to reality.

The clouds on high, hung like fresh linens on a line
being dried by the sun in its Egyptian-blue heaven.

The air smelled rich, clean and ionized and ever
the inventive stylist, it periodically rearranged my hair.

Leaves rustled, sounding like a buzz of conversation,
as they rushed from place to place, as if late to class.

The breeze was working hard, in jerky flourishes,
like the strokes of an indecisive artist.

The afternoon seemed as bright and brash as a shout    
as if it wanted, no demanded, our emotional attention
and I gave it, smilingly, ready for the weekend.

When the sky leans close

When the Sky Leans Close

The air quivers,  
a soft shiver slipping across my skin  
as if the storm is exhaling  
right beside me.  

Thunder swells in the distance,  
a slow, resonant hunger,  
calling through the dark  
with a voice that feels  
too intimate for weather.  

Lightning unfurls like a touch  
that hasn’t quite touched—  
a bright, trembling nearness  
that makes my breath catch  
before I know why.  

Ionized air gathers around me,  
metallic and clean,  
a taste that feels like anticipation  
held on the tongue.  

The vibration climbs inward,  
curling through bone and breath,  
a rising warmth that feels  
almost like being wanted  
by something vast and unseen.  

Nature presses closer,  
not with force  
but with a kind of deliberate curiosity,  
as if the sky is studying  
the shape of my pulse.  

Uncertainty sharpens into thrill,  
a beautiful tension  
that hums beneath the ribs,  
pulling me toward the storm  
as though we share  
a secret frequency.  

Joy blooms hot and bright,  
a euphoric ache,  
a spiritual sweetness  
that feels like being touched  
by something made of light.  

And when the thunder finally breaks,  
the sound rolls through me  
like a slow, consuming embrace—  
not violent,  
not gentle,  
just inevitable,  
as if the sky and I  
have been moving toward this moment  
for lifetimes.
Caroline Louise Foister 1/19/2026
Robert James Liguon
Tempest contest

When the Sky begins to dream


Tranquil air trembles,  
a soft shimmer rising through the chaos  
as thunder blooms like a distant memory  
I’m only now remembering.  

Lightning unfurls in slow, impossible arcs,  
buzzing with a language older than breath—  
a whisper of light tasting the edges of my skin,  
tingling like a secret waking up.  

Ionized molecules drift toward me,  
metallic, fresh, impossibly clean,  
as if the world has been rinsed  
in some celestial river.  

The scent vibrates through my body,  
a quiet acceleration,  
energy gathering in spirals,  
lifting me into a place  
where nature feels sentient  
and I feel seen.  

The storm humbles me—  
not with force,  
but with its strange intimacy,  
its dreamlike certainty  
that everything is connected  
in ways I can’t quite name.  

Anticipation curls with uncertainty,  
a beautiful madness,  
a sensory tide rising higher  
than thought can follow.  

Passion sharpens,  
focus deepens,  
power moves through me  
like a benevolent phantom.  

Joy becomes a luminous pulse,  
a euphoric high that feels  
half-spiritual, half-imagined,  
as if the sky itself  
has leaned down to touch me  
with affection made of thunder.  

And when the crash finally comes,  
it doesn’t break the dream—  
it completes it,  
a cosmic heartbeat  
echoing through my own.  

Caroline foister 1/19/2026
Robert James Liguon Tempest contest

Star Gate2 Wander

Out on the edge of the shadow, the day begins
Charting out a course to an aimless star, but not to wander
The pioneer has a map, with key, keeping his eye bright
He is armed, the light sabre, for friend or foe, and shield

Like the fusion that moves him onward, running plasmaCurrents of power, drive propulsion, launch away this ship
Yet first he must meet up with the hulking edifice, the ship
Soon to be parting from this orbit, the beam-core begins

Filled with helium ore and maybe tritium , the ionized plasma
This purring star-drive is ready to launch, to fly, to wander
Directly; the beam is also a current, projected energy, a shield
Meant to direct away oncoming dust, meteorites, too bright

To be picked from quantum radar as space without beams bright
Radiating a plutonium glow within, the pocket between the ship
And dark space, being twisted and warped by this, the second shield
Which keeps captain and crew safe from collision, the flight begins
The deep stars of the galaxy, both bright and dark, appear to wander
From within the tower of the star-cruiser, while it is revving up its plasma

Listening to the beam-core purr, its sufficient to check on the plasma
The captain takes his turn on watch, keeping his senses sharp, his eyes bright
Lest he be invaded, alien ships from without, or a slip of his mind to wander
Long he has kept to himself, on nights such as this, alone with his ship
And longing for the end of this flight from night, for a new day that begins
Without arms or a call to arms. All foes and aliens who force him to shield
Form: Burlesque


Premium Member My Bloody Valentine

*Vaaz= vase 

You offered roses delivered thorns, blood drips and your body adorns ~
Slumped, soaked in crimson your heart forever mine, retribution has come, my bloody valentine—by Poet

Once upon a time lived Angel, an androgynous white knight
Diamonds in rings and pearls on strings, he’d often gift  
The reddest of roses, bluest of violets, specifics delight
Yet cataclysmic are the blackened roots adrift 
Blessed was I with a sultry kiss, my affection’s launched
Hijacked my love from the marrow of my bones 
I blessed him with carte blanche 
Mistaken for a gewgaw of wonton love on loan
Thrusting winds levitate revealing regret
The myriads of flowers in the vaaz, what cause? 
This bleeding heart gushes the blood of violet blue scarlet 
Prickly are the iron thorns between splayed fingers
Bittersweets, the Londor truffles
Cheating are the charred stars above, darkness lingers
Ionized is the taste of tears in wine, how it ruffles
like nails scratch it burns inside, nothing can suture
The arrow churns a void through the breast
Unbeknownst to me my future
To avoid loneliness and unrest
Kingdom of crushes what judgement have I begotten?
I curse the love blind night we met
As a forbidden love and now forgotten
My black knight you are Keats Bright Star
A sacrifice of Anayalation
Another scab, another scar 
A token of my affection
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Stars Begin and Die In Similar Ways

Cosmos magician, gorgeous nebula of rainbow colors.
My eyes are dazzled, by her unbelievable beauty.
Honored, I revere her magnificence, as I peek into the telescope.
Seeing this nebula move not at all, though I know she is.

Cosmos magician, gorgeous nebula of rainbow colors.
An interstellar beginning or a super nova end?
No way to tell. Like humans, stars begin and end the same way.
Delighting the high-powered telescope in the planetarium.

Cosmos magician, gorgeous nebula of rainbow colors.
I take another peek, holding my breath, amazed at her beauty.
Fantastic colors of this nebula delight and entice imagination
I hope she is at the beginning of her life cycle.

Cosmos magician, gorgeous nebula of rainbow colors.
Dust, hydrogen and helium, swirling interstellar galactically. 
Twisting and turning in a fog with other ionized gases
No matter her journey, I marvel at her optimism, and her grace.

Premium Member Night View

Night View

I sit by the fire with a lone lamp,
dimmed, so my eyes can watch the 
astronomical wonder above me.
A small mesquite fire to warm my bones
in the chill night air.
A new moon to not block my vision
of such magnificence.

Jewels decorate the sky,
pinpoints of light billions of miles away.
Perhaps I can see mighty Leo or Ursa Major with her cub,
or Canis Major at Orion’s heel.
Perhaps a meteor will suddenly streak
overhead in a blaze of glory.
Maybe gentle Aquarius will empty his jar
and wet the dry desert with his water.

Supermassive black holes are out there somewhere,
spewing ionized plasma jets into the depths of space,
bending time and space to suit their purposes.
The great fabric of space and time lie above me
calling me to come.

Someday I will. 
But for now, I enjoy.
Form: Ekphrasis

The Propagation of Hate

Malignant gangrenous political cancer
     corrupts, festers, and poisons United States,
     thus opposition cannot wait,
especially since Gospel in accordance

     with feeble minded Donald Trump
     implemented wrought ugly trait,
particularly obliteration, sans progressive
     human rights legislation

     more or less pronounced positive
     in every L ionized Nittany or cotton bowl state
and ratiocination inherent within
     mine Democrat oriented mind doth rate

this forty fifth president (defect)
     with sawdust packing
     his noodle oven egotistical pate
trophy wife (spouse number three),

     a Slovenia mate
donning "I don't care anymore"
     t-shirt rousing media firestorm of late
essentially silently corroborating,

     fostering, and illuminating hate
mutely bolstering the Trump anthem,
     viz make America great
again, which pathless,

     pithless, and pointless aim
     roars like an earsplitting runaway freight
     train oblivious of wailing soul asylum,
     that no era meets said criteria

     backtracking time machine before
     rightful indigenous occupants of this land
     got decimated as one after another
     exploiter did inundate

(comprising a multitude
     of indigenous variety of village people
indignantly subjected to Genocide,
     when first "discoverer"

     of new land didst promulgate
activation wrought deliberate sealed fate
vis a vis capitulation, demolition,
     and extirpation, cuz

     a scathing rebuke aye attest,
     those murderers didst equate
worthlessness of
     so called "Indians" on 1492 date,

and still remnants of storied tribes,
     now attempt to create
historical documentation operate
ting with limited resources to adjudicate.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 
Food methinks doth buzzfeed drumbeat agog
at pyrotechnics July 4th, 2018 shared as blog
posts, a falsehood prevails which dog
gone “FAKE” brewed watered down grog
posits that the majority of Colonialists stay hog

tied to strict task masters, and mainly the scant 
upperclass experienced autonomy, 
     no matter the under class didst futilely rant
and rave with the occasional 
     uprisings over time did grant 
minimal appeasement to stifle violent kant!
Form: Epic

Premium Member Storm Chasers on the Loose Again

Come on! Is that the best blast you've got?
Your thunder tantrums don't scare me - Your flash and flare they're half hot!
I love this dunder, blunder, thunder, and underhand rumble-in-the-jungle!
Touché! Olé! We're duellin' again with fork-pronged lightn' sparkling lances.
Clang! Bang! Ker-pow! Ker-plunk! Ker-thump! - Your thunder's late by years!
I flash, bash, smash, crash, gnash — while your Ker-boom goes boom blah, blah, Ahah!
Your quick flashback, claptrap wisecracks come back five seconds late.
Bolt after bolt, your jolts, revolts, cheap-shots and pot-shots hit my ear flaps.
All roar, no score, no gore, no nosebleeds — just air stabs in ionized air.
By then your temper, torage, outrage, out in the garage is binned — You lost!
You ain't learned nothin' from last night's plate-a-smashin' dry run.
Oh No! Don't let the rain come down!
We're both having far far too much fun!
You can't resist, can you —  spoiling the perfect row — 
By making up, way, way, way ..... too soon!
Form: Lyric

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