around and around
petals fall into place
basking in sunlight
small bud begins life
vibrant masterpiece alive
sky absorbs colors
petals stream in air
it's color absorbed by sky
masterpiece beauty
Rosette Nebula is a cluster
of ten thousand suns with new stars
radiating causing a
domino effect that
excite the atoms
causing it to
radiate
whereto
it
creates the nebula to exist
like a rosette in the cosmos.
Five thousand light years from us
with its nucleus of
twenty-five hundred
young stars, in the
atomic
dense clouds
form.
Date: 06/14/2019
Rosette Nebula
In the cosmos where infinity shares
enigmatic luminosity of stellar space
there dwells a rose of divine grace.
This Nebula in our Milky Way, bares
a magic unseen by the naked eye
in the darkness of our indigo sky.
Five thousand light years from earthly cares
in constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn,
with enchanting ruby hues she does adorn.
In radiation of her young star's flares
her beautiful blossom, now Oklahoma's rose,
the envy of this poet's rhyme or prose.
6-8-19
Nifty Named Nebula's Premier Poetry Contest
Sponsor William Kekaula
8th Place The Rosette
~Second Place~
Strand Choice Q, any theme any form Poetry Contest
Sponsor Brian Strand
*Note On April 16, 2019 the Oklahoma Legislature passed HB1292 making the Rosette Nebula as the official state astronomical object. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed it into law April 22, 2019.
carried away on the last rays
of autumn sun in a moon-shaped pool
carried away like cosmic driftwood
she's having a pocket honeymoon
because
there's a coat of scarlet velvet
somewhere in her Estonian hair
having a picnic in a coffin
that's her own gallery of famine
please
let's visit our favourite sunken ships
born within the flood in a launderette
born at the edge of a melting ledge
she's a sick sycamore
down by the deli shop
she's a dark tunnel
in a raindrop
she's a blitz tempest
in a kindergarten
she's a jailed bouquet
her flowers of tartan
she's a coquette
a Russian roulette
my marionette
called Rosette
rosette clouds sweep on
glazed by jewels of twilight...
hushing amazed eyes
Haiku 101 Contest
2 Feb 2016
Oak's lace brushes fall's sundown
embossed in moonlight rosette, her gown.
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Rick Parise's Crystalline
by nette onclaud
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