Nebula Poems

Gazing at the Sky

                                           Gazing at the Sky

        

Flesh That Refuses Form

no sound
in a cascade of nerves

submerged
amid a myriad of silences

a serpentine fold
slices through the viscera

and a breath
of phosphor
burns
in the chest’s hollow

a crawling rhythm
of an aborted name
shapeless

a lunar longing
locks into the bones
among the remnants
of a collapsed nebula

I do not heal
I do not return
I am
flesh that refuses form

Nebula of Lies

You had me
for a year, I believed it all was true.
Every moment, every action,
how could it not be?

Like a serpentine snake,
you slithered inside my mind, my body,
squeezing out all my trust,
all I believed in you.

You made me lower my guards.
I believed.
I wished I didn’t.

You showered me with love,
a cascade, a toxic waterfall,
drowning me in a

Star Studded Night

Star Studded Night


Myriad stars like tiny jewels greet me
as I set up my telescope
a new moon was the current
Lunar cycle, no light to interfere
Ophiuchus the Serpentine constellation
Slithers across the sky trailing
Phosphorous dust in its wake
I train my scope on the pinwheel shaped
Andromeda constellation its spiral arms
reaching far out to space
the Helix Nebula comes into view

Nebula of Mind

("Starless Nebula", 2020, original encaustic)

Nebula of Mind

Each step we take, each breath, each thought
A crossroad
A point of possible turning
Holding a potential
Balancing all the weight of the past
With the light of a future
Each moment another chance 
To see the light
And release the weight
Everything that comes
The embodiment of all that has been
Till at the crossroad of death
We

Grand Nebula Carina

Hubble photographed her
in her finest sapphire 
and carnelian display;
a wizened sage who’s
gathered knowledge of universes
Orion takes his back seat to her luminosity.

Gowned in her elegant splendor, 
Carina’s a nebulous delight, 
upon Sagittarius’s Arm
a pageantry of excellence,
as she arrives at the universal ball.

Gods Eye Nebula

Marbles rolling among gasses.
through the black passes;
dynamic wormhole universal flight;
etheric ghosts ride to the light.

Soul in a dream state,
spectre awaiting checkmate.
Fall into the lion’s mouth,
slide on down south.

Animals to guide you through,
abyss of many colored hues;
revealed secrets hiding deep,
within recesses, up they creep.

Deep within the glass revealed,
answers await a calling peal.
Lighting candles pierce the black;
revealing

Cosmic Glitter In the Coalsack

The protoplanetary phase
of nebulae sidereal
occurs in astral later days
before the stage ethereal
when cloud impressions like Monets
create new star material.

At edge of inky Coalsack cloud,
nebula Caldwell Ninety-nine,
amidst the murk of dusty shroud,
PPN stellar redesign
with brilliance beauteous endowed
near verge of Coalsack’s borderline

was seen by Hubble shining bright
as thrust through atramentous dark
in cryptic interstellar sleight
of hand by cosmic

This Nebula Night

Expectant eyes searched dark sullen skies
Stellar starlight was dim this nebula night
The mourning moon in silent swoon
donned sorrow's shroud beneath a cosmic cloud
Her vibrant veil, faintly frail
Brilliant beams became stygian streams
Then dawn danced as aurora* advanced

Gods Eye Nebula

Marbles rolling among gasses.
through the black passes;
dynamic wormhole universal flight;
etheric ghosts ride to the light.

Soul in a dream state,
spectre awaiting checkmate.
Fall into the lion’s mouth,
slide on down south.

Animals to guide you through,
abyss of many colored hues;
revealed secrets hiding deep,
within recesses, up they creep.

Deep within the glass revealed,
answers await a calling peal.
Lighting candles pierce the black;
revealing

Our Home and Around

It's the spherical objects in these galaxies,
                          That revolves and rotates
Brightened by the light from the red star not so far,
         

W O R D Light Over the Nebula

The word sprouted
from the brute
matter
breaks out...
Through
the  paled
disguise
of the throat,
instigates one
creative reaction
in the nebulae
of mind,
and by reflex
emits a signal.
And by metaphor
allusion,
 arrives to the ropes
of the larynx
in shape of
sonorous  signal we call,
word

The Stardust Spinner

On a planetoid in our galaxy
lives a being of illumination;
spinning stardust from her palms,
in colored chromatic ecstasy.

Like ribbons flowing from her hands
that whip and whirl in lunar-play;
she crafts rainbows in motion,
electric neon swirling bands.

Brilliant cascade of locomotion
bobbing lights in outer space;
look up to the heavens in wonder
at her bright harmonic ocean.


5-23-2021
ALL YOURS (May 25) Poetry

Summer Sky Tableau

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

Glowing Nebula

glowing nebula
planets dance a reel
in space

in black hole 
a new planet forms
cr14

meteors sail
past a quasar
light spray

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