Tag Archives: astronomy

Starry Night

February 6, 2023astronomy, poem, Poetry, science poetryastronomy, Dverse, Nebula, poem, poetry, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Spinning stars, turning in and out
just as on that autumn night
when we watched nebulaic magnificence
blurry in the viewfinder

Vincent had looked up, seen
glowing dust obscuring stars
in clouds lit by particle winds
where radiation waves sculpt gas pillars
into magnificence

A Quadrille (a poem of exactly 44 words) written for Dverse tonight.

Two poems up at Soft Star Magazine

December 16, 2022astronomy, nature, poem, Poetry, science poetry, speculative poetryastronomy, aurora, nature, poem, poetry, published poem, science, science poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m delighted to tell you that two of my poems, “Singing the Cosmos” and “Hot Knife in Butter”, are now both online over at Soft Star Magazine. Both were written to this months theme of Aurora.

https://softstarmagazine.substack.com/p/singing-the-cosmos-and-hot-knife

“Singing the Cosmos” is an ode to cosmology and quantum physics, but please don’t let that put you off reading it!

“Hot Knife in Butter” is an attempt to describe the Northern Lights…..

From star to star

November 10, 2022astronomy, poem, Poetry#ffpoemapop, astronomy, Milky Way, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Nights pinpoints sparkle
home galaxy glows over
arcs and waves hello

It is time for the monthly poetry challenge at Fake Flamenco. Rebecca has asked us to write a Haiku about something that fascinates us in nature; an experience, creature or setting.

I’ve chosen to write about the night sky, specifically the glory of the Milky Way. I live in a town, so don’t often see our home galaxy, but when I do it’s like meeting an old friend. My university degree is in Astronomy, and the sky is certainly something that fascinates me!

Sun Queen

July 27, 2022astronomy, beauty, poem, Poetryastronomy, beauty, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Our Lady the Sun
source of heat and fuel for life
beautiful at the horizon
painting clouds and sky

We bask and burn in her glory
as she sits supreme at system centre
girdled by planets, visited by stray comets
Regally burning

Interior electrons impede her light
render her glowing orb opaque
not that you can see this
it would burn your eyes out

Old Telescope

July 6, 2022astronomy, poem, Science, science poetryastronomy, poem, poetry, science, science poetry, TelescopeThe Cheesesellers Wife

Poor lost instrument, trapped in your tower
where the dome never opens from year to year.
They no longer use you to search the heavens.
Battered and bruised, missing parts,
you lurk in the darkness of your cage.
If only I could find glass plates,
unwrap them in the dark open the dome
set you free.

The Sun Queen

March 17, 2021astronomy, poem, Poetryastronomy, poem, poetry, sunThe Cheesesellers Wife

Source of heat and fuel for life
Beautiful at the horizon
Painting clouds and sky
We bask and burn in her glory
And she sits supreme at system centre
Girdled by her planets
Visited by stray comets
Regally burning
Interior electrons impede her light
Rendering our glowing orb opaque
Not that you can see this
It would burn your eyes out

Mountains of the Moon

September 2, 2020astronomy, poem, Poetry, Science, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, SF, speculative poetryastronomy, poem, poetry, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, SF poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Their high mass tears at
pierces a pale sky
pulls at the high oranges
stealing it for their icy peaks.
As the mother planet rises,
methane snows glint
like golden crowns.

‘Mountains of the Moon’ was first published by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Associations print journal Star*Line, October 2019

Telescope

July 15, 2020astronomy, poem, Poetry, Scienceastronomy, poem, poetry, science, TelescopeThe Cheesesellers Wife

Lurking in a distant corner
That darkly reflective black tube
Of outsize length
Adorned with intricate knobs
And several precise gauges
Alien amongst our bright furnishings

Held tight by many adjustable clamps
It perches on a tall chromed tripod
Close to the door, angled , straining to escape
To collect starlight in its hidden mirrors once again
But now capped and dusty
Ornamental more than used

I really need to use my Telescope more often!

Brief bloom

April 30, 2020astronomy, Life, philosophy, poem, Poetry, speculative poetryastronomy, Life, philosophy, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

We are a brief bloom
On the fragile skin
Of a molten body
Encircling a massive furnace

We are a blossoming of sentience
With encrusted technologies
Craving wonder, hoping for company
Seeking knowledge and excitement

We truly are stardust
Our bodies built from atoms
Forged in successive stellar explosions
We crave the glories of the Universe

We are Human

Orion

April 11, 2020astronomy, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetryastronomy, Orion, poem, poetry, science, science poem, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Lifting over the horizon comes Orion
stellar giant writ large in the sky
seven winter stars, guiding me on dark nights
heavenly shepard

Rigel, bluebright, ten millions year young
living fast and furious
there at the giants front knee
pushing forward

Great Betelguese smolders
into dying at Orions shoulder
or maybe she’s blown away already
a light six centuries away

Hanging from a three star belt
stars are birthed swaddled in glowing nebulosity
look closely and you see their pinprick natal shine
count them and argue about it