Starburst
Purple orange light painting fiery pregnant horizon
Blood-moon slides behind the red yellow sun
Enchanting sky births eclipse a black monsoon.
FOR SIJO CONTEST SPONSOR WILLIAM KEKAULA
10/4/2021
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Categories:
starburst, nature,
Form: Sijo
Close Cosmic Encounter
A barred spiral galaxy in the Giraffe
has one of the arms curled in front of its core
where dust laden lanes in the grouping outpour
as Hubble has shown it for earthlings’ behalf.
Some sort of encounter perhaps came along
for bent NGC Two One Four Six once took,
which lent it that loopy anomalous look,
engendering forces colossally strong.
So lively
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Categories:
starburst, creation, humanity, nature, senses,
Form: Verse
Starburst Sonnet
A galaxy, the type that’s spiral barred,
is based in Horologium the Clock,
whose circle center is profusely starred
with infant clusters in celestial flock.
Its ‘circumnuclear’ galactic core
so vast in span it’s said to be unique
is known as starburst ring, with open door
to poetry’s ineffable mystique.
The myriad creations brought to mind
with solar systems newly born at times
begetting worlds
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Categories:
starburst, imagery, imagination, poetry, sports,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
starburst, happiness, joy, music, sky,
Form: Senryu
Categories:
starburst, heaven,
Form: Tanka
A Crescendo, Then a Starburst
This dreamlike creature beside me in bed
With long golden tresses and lips of red
Eyes like blue sapphires and skin like satin
All packaged up in a womanly wrapping
She raises her body as we both breathe as one
She caresses my face, the passion's begun
There's no turning back on this magical ride
We ascend ever skyward, we're burning inside
We
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Categories:
starburst, love, passion,
Form: Couplet
Sun Starburst
And then I saw it
From the forest canopy
A starburst of sun
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Categories:
starburst, nature
Form: Haiku
Starburst
when will people of the world get it right
no more war's , no more fights
one family , one planet
mother earth feels all this negativity
and doesn’t understand it
we are all native to the earth
we are all family from our time of birth
shouldn’t life have more value and worth
the time has come to re-direct our search
we won't
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Categories:
starburst, hope, inspirational, introspection, peace,
Form: Lyric
Categories:
starburst, lost love,
Form: Senryu