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Stelliferous
Stelliferous the stars o’erspread
that lace the heavens overhead
and sparkle plentifully bright
to grace the atramental night
when face of lumined sol has fled.
Sidereals the skies embed
bejeweling where dreamers tread
to render poets’ fancies quite
stelliferous.
With wonderment the welkin’s wed
to...
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Categories:
space, imagery, imagination, poets, sky,
Form: Rondeau
astral plainastronomers often describe
the path of their heavenly ride
far off in the distant night sky
defining what's higher than high
luminous wavelength emitters
heavenly hosts all aglitter
lost in gravitational trance
each dancing unique cosmic dance
charted starlight guiding the way
for ships...
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Categories:
space, creation, culture, encouraging, light,
Form: Rhyme
Put a Light in that AtticThere's a space with no light.
So much crammed up there!
Wonderful treasures in the front,
Trash in behind.
Images and memories all muddled together.
Loads of ideas and half thought out plans
scattered all over the place.
Should have had some...
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Categories:
space, absence, confusion, how i
Form: Free verse
Border-lieA border is a line drawn in the sand
Constantly shifting if you have time to see
A personality is a borderline ebbing
Time ceaselessly flowing us away
One side unreachable as the far shore
The other, all that...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, planet, space,
Form: Free verse
Directional SynthesisDoes your life then come together
front to back
or
back to front
It takes years to clearly see
that both
directions
are a ruse
Life revolving as a circle
with you
inside
its center
All phases caught in a whirlpool’s tide
that ebbs
and flows
— divine
(The New Room:...
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Categories:
space, time,
Form: Free verse
in processonward in spiral
eternity is viral
where nothing's final
constantly rearranging
existence ever changing
endless living stream
this state which all deem being
in heavenly scheme
riding through expanding space
as part of the human race
constantly a must
to reality adjust
dust to cosmic dust
more than...
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Categories:
change, life, sky, space,
Form: Tanka
Expansionevent horizon
revealing outer limit
of singular force
swirling cosmic dust
genesis of star’s being
clouds stellar ceiling
space lying between
all that can be felt or seen
formed that which has been
vivid human dream
makes further consciousness seem
outside nature’s scheme
reality found
vast universe comes...
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Categories:
space, creation, history, life, science,
Form: Haiku
A Place Not Meant To Be: 11#11: Space Race Revised
X-X Bethlehem, then Jerusalem, He'll lay,
slides from angel wings through hourglass timeless
inquiry, that constant without delay
spatial values in place of life ... priceless?
Space is priceless and we welcome it here,
--present company excluded,...
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Categories:
space, conflict, dark, faith, hope,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Earth At NightAt night, in space
Light shows in Europe, West and East
The rest are dark-base....
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Categories:
dark, earth, light, space,
Form: Haiku
Starbust LoveBeneath the tapestry of the celestial sphere,
Where stars whisper secrets for those who hear.
Two souls adrift in the cosmic dance,
Finding each other as if by chance.
In the silence of space, their hearts converse,
With a language...
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Categories:
space, cute love, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
Yin, Yang, Big Bang
Where my yin meets my yang
I hear a dissonant clang
My physician traced it back
all the way to the ‘Big Bang’
Seems...
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Categories:
creation, journey, space,
Form: Couplet
Psychological Warfare
Categories:
space, betrayal, conflict, corruption, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Your CrawlspaceLiquid stars drip to a sparkle,
look up take a sip get your fill;
Peek out of your crawlspace;
Constellations and chaos cross
feeding poets with wishing sauce;
Eager to share a trace;
Fear not the view of a black hole,
untold...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, space, star,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Reverse GraffitiA celestial dancer obeys your whispered command at the crossroads of reality.
With each gesture, you bend the veils swaying in reverence.
You summon dawn’s blush, casting shadows upon your loyal companion.
Stars bow and...
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Categories:
space, dance, desire, imagination, power,
Form: Other
A Decidedly Short Interview With A Black HoleThe astronaut saw the black hole
And suddenly feared for his soul
He chose to die brave
And gave life a wave
And as he went in he cried, “Goal!”
The astronaut clung to his pride
As his atoms were...
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Categories:
death, space,
Form: Limerick
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