Nature Shooting Poems

I stopped to admire the stars this morning long before my walk was through.
When the moon has set and the sky is clear it’s something...

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Vast dome of night sky,
Spark slices through dark, fleeting—
Desert awash in light.
In silence, ancient secrets,
Shadows yield to the bright dance....

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a bright winter night 
    shooting stars faded away
         ~dressed in their splendor~...

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I am not a wandering star whom the dark gloom envelopes
I am not a cloud empty of tears and blown by barren winds
I am not...

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Look up, little one, at the sky so blue,
A world of wonder waiting for you.
Clouds that float and birds that soar,
The vast expanse, so much...

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We arrived at the beach at 2:45 in the morning…why, you ask, at such an early hour?
because that was the best time to see shooting...

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shooting star leaves light    
     kiss on distant treetop while 
       ...

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Meteors

zipline across

night skies

from outer space

disintegrating

on entry

to Earth's

atmosphere,

sparking

and blazing

bright streaks of 

fiery fragments that

in the blink of an eye,

morph

into shooting stars.


(Yalto)


08,15,2019
Shooting Stars Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nayda...

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(Haiku or new haiku? That is the question!)

It’s awful, those days when you seem to shoot blanks,
When your poet’s voice just isn’t humming,
Your only sure...

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blackest night aglow
icy harbinger of doom
near now, make seas rise
send shivers through ancient tombs
blue earth beware night sky 

temple bells ring out
monks in orange robes...

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Looking up high in the sky
      I can see light passing by
        ...

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A wayward star has lost it's place
Amidst the vastness known as space
Too close to earth it's path did lead
This shooting star for us to see...

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Shooting stars all
Ashen faced; us, the dust floating aimlessly 
feeling unimportant and dull.
We aim for something so much bigger.
We collide and burn in fiery flash.
The...

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From far across the dark of space
You start your long celestial race
I think about the sights you’ll see
As you travel across the galaxy

Past constellations deep...

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Spishu,spishu the shooting star
Noisily flies across night bar
Lights life for split second
Then wonder if beckon
Which one is being called afar...

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