Nebulae Poems

The Universe Retains All the Knowledge of Every Civilization That Ever Existed

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In the black throat of space, words spiral,
Charred syllables drifting like moths to no flame.
Every book, every prayer, every curse
Finds its way into the bone-dust of stars.

I dream of arch...

Down the rabbit hole

...In Wonderland's twilight, where shadows play,
Alice chased a rabbit, down a curious way.
The hole yawned wide, a vortex in the ground,
She tumbled in, and her world spun around.

Down, down she ...

Alice Among the Astral Wonders

...Alice Among the Astral Wonders

From a rabbit hole of wondrous delight,
Alice now ventures to the stars of the night.
Her mission's a clock, a celestial race,
To find lost minutes in time and in...

Whispers of the Wyrm

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Written: July 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Tom Woody 

 Walking around the edge of a massive crater that seemed to beckon her with all sorts of bizarre things, Alice—now an adult but still...

Fire the Immortal by Nova

...FIRE the Immortal
Fire the Immortal—primordial breath,
Kindled in chaos, a twin flame of death.
Born in the forge where the cosmos ignites,
It dances through nebulae, seeding the night.

With t...

Lost

...Amid the fire of twilight sun
I wish I knew my way
horizon’s char and moonlight’s shun
has ashed my hope   I pray

for dark cloud constellation to free
a cosmic steed for me to flee gunshot str...

hitchhiking to mars

...We’ll hitchhike to mars
on a rocket not a car,
so say your au revoirs.

We’ll steer towards Polaris, the north star
right through the center of the milky-way-bar.
See, the universe is dark and ...

MUSIC TO THE EYES

...The rising and setting
Of the sun…
The waxing and waning 
Of the moon…

The orchestrated constellations
Of the beaming stars…
The staccato positionings
Of the planets…

The andante asteroid...

Opal Dreams and Gold Gleams

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Written: May 31st, 2025, For contest: By Joseph May

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"The stars beckoned her song to reach the crescent moon." 
A sonata spun in silver, diaph...

Ritual of Us

...Within the twilight of the witching hour,
where dreams mingled with reality,
your tongue, a sacred blade, flicks me open—
each unspoken word unfurling from your lips
presses against the ache ...

How to make love to a didgeridoo VI

...Antiquated pipeline geysers ravage starry nebulae, blast ash. The hurricane bankrupts reed origami masts. It splits overripe pomegranates. Wild animal guitar buzzes, echoing through shattered valleys...

Long Forgotten

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The tree of life has roots to the beginning of time
infiltrating depths unfathomable
lost in the nebulae of bygone memories
the illusion of neat lines soon tangled in a fog
hiding stories obsol...

Have you ever wondered what poets hide in their minds

...Have you ever wondered what poets hide in their minds,
where universes of words and unspoken dreams lie?
Look closely, but carefully, lest you become the beast
that slowly, slowly splits their sku...

Saturn Dance and Basaltic Magma

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Written: February 22, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama

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Skating upon Saturn rings, we dance in the empyrean, 
while orbit...

I've been listening to your eyes

...In realms where sound surrenders to the gaze,
And silence speaks in iridescent haze,
I've learned a tongue no mortal throat can claim,
A lexicon of light, a whispered flame.
No spoken word, no ca...

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