I dance with the shimmering stars in the darkness of night.
I mingled with meteors leaving a brilliant trail until out of sight.
Through all tribulations, I continue to shine as bright as the sun.
The ultimate power resides within me and evil will always run.
meteors
collide in conflagration
clash of titans
sky
silent
velvet black
pinpoints of lights
from faraway stars
rhythmically falling
streaking lights across sky
sparkling vanishing
diamond rock balls
exploding
star dust
glow
Fourth Place Winner: Malabika Ray Choudhure: Merse Contest-8/31/21
The Horse Nebula
rises from flames, forged
from Milky Way core.
Saturn flanks his right,
Jupiter his left --
Gods girded for war.
Lightning bolts whistle
above the red glare
for all to beware.
Dark stallion ascends,
riderless, regal,
through the rarified air.
Photo taken by the author at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, July 29, 2019, showing Saturn, Jupiter, the Milky Way core, and Southern Delta Aquarid meteors.
The purpose of being
human to live as amateurs
and not to live
to attend to be absent like meteors
Conflagration,
explosive jubilation,
catapulting projectiles,
colliding in motion;
meteors in party mode.
1/15/2020
STRAND SELECT 11,any form ,any theme Poetry Contest
Brian Strand
ecstatic meteors
sailing through space-
congested traffic
Montana skies
at nighttide
drips with stars
trailed by crimson showers
beneath the clouded hue
of the milky way
alabaster tips
of mountains
stand like shadows
almost touching
the backdrop of night
aglow in the blush
momentarily
I stand
in the stillness
of my own actions
the same as them
casting shadows
like wishes
on the streamers
of falling stars
as they fade
in the distance
I feel
the expansion
of my own dreams
dissipate within the air
of night's veiled breath
as I sigh
at the beauty
contained within
Montana's skies
Meteors
Like bursts of love from the heart of God
Overflowing from his bridal chamber
The chariot’s warmed up
The horses are groomed
Waiting on the trumpet call
Jesus
meteors shoot
across the night sky - -
lovers hold hands
For Tirzah’s Shooting Stars contest
Meteors do not shine long
fill your eyes and stow away their lusture
quick and fast
etch in memory
so that it ever lasts
you need not flame
this is the 'arrival'
I have erased the 'departure' from my grey cells
you are here to stay sure as hell
I cannot risk those nights
I tossed hard aching deep inside
each line on my face drawing your visage
my eyes wistfully waiting for that loving touch
plenty of which I used to obtain as such
now you have touched me again
sun is shining
and it is raining as well
it is the four eyes that are flooding
the floor on which we made love.
We met again like meteors and hold their lusture in tears that drop.
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