Tag Archives: astronomy

Granite moon

September 14, 2019beauty, poem, Poetry, science poetryastronomy, Moon, poem, poetry, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Granite moon
Grey and old
Silent sentinel
Forever cold

Spinning orbit
Spiralling away
Shining ghostlike
At break of day

Time in the dark

July 20, 2019astronomy, cosmology, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetryastronomy, poem, poetry, science, science poem, science poetry, starThe Cheesesellers Wife

Born not in darkness but in a glory of light
glowing plasma heralding
time to come.
Wrapped in dust, avidly gravitating
acquiring debris, gathering and heating
shaping, moulding
to planetary status.

Time builds further complexities
molecular forms, moving, reproducing
that bloom in awareness
become intelligences
who eventually come to know
that stars are
born not in darkness but in a glory of light.

Poem published in Eternal Haunted Summer

July 14, 2019poem, Poetry, speculative poetryastronomy, Eternal Haunted Summer, pagan, poem, poetry, published poem, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m very happy to tell you that my poem ‘Love of the Gods’ has been published in Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice Issue 2019

The theme for this issue is The Planets and Stars. Please head over and check out a great issue…..

https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/summer-solstice-2019/love-of-the-gods/

Time and the starlet

June 15, 2019astronomy, beauty, Life, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetryastronomy, poem, poetry, science poetry, starThe Cheesesellers Wife

Deep in space-time, she awakes
throws off her mantle of gas
explodes onto the scene
young, hot
burning high

Accrues fans, slaves in her orbit
flares up occasionally
bloats as her diet changes,
sinks into middle age
ends catastrophically

Poem: Drenched

January 19, 2019astronomy, beauty, cosmology, poem, Poetryastronomy, night, poem, poetry, starsThe Cheesesellers Wife

I am drenched in stars
spangled with worlds
in nebula spattered night
until bone cold moon
rises high
glints with laughter
sends me scattering
to the safety of shadows
and the long wait for
another dusk.

We are Stardust

November 24, 2018astronomy, cosmology, Life, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetryastronomy, cosmology, Life, physics, poem, poetry, science, science poetry, star, We are StardustThe Cheesesellers Wife

Orbital telescopes send home images
nebulae, glowing with colour
last remnants of fat, dying, exploded stars
lingering across the night sky
lighted by millennia old catastrophe

They are where the magic happens
atoms forged in burnt out stars
a deathbed bequest that has made us all

The world within #poem #poetry

October 13, 2018astronomy, cosmology, Life, philosophy, poem, Poetryastronomy, family, philosophy, poem, poetry, truthThe Cheesesellers Wife

We are the body electric
Our cells sense differences
In the electricities around us

We are multitudes
blood containing cells
from parents and children

And yes, children, we are stardust
billions of stars died three times over
to make our atoms

Poetry and wonder
is our very
existence

Stars like Water

March 29, 2018astronomy, beauty, poem, Poetryastronomy, beauty, Milky Way, night, poem, poetry, sky, starsThe Cheesesellers Wife

Stars poured over sky
like water over stones
arcing through banks of vast dark.
An owl calls softly
so as to not break
the spell of night.

Brief bloom

February 28, 2018astronomy, beauty, cosmology, Life, nature, philosophy, poem, Poetry, Science, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, speculative poetryastronomy, Earth, environment, hope, humanity, Life, NASA, nature, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, science poem, science poetry, solar system, space, speculative poetry, sun, Technology, travel, volcanoThe 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

Re-blogged from last year

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160510.html

Physics Lecture

January 20, 2018astronomy, cosmology, nature, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetryastronomy, mathematics, maths, physics, poem, poetry, quantum, Schrödinger, science poetry, UniversityThe Cheesesellers Wife

Equations straggle across the blackboards
dance and shimmer
spill understanding and enlightenment
making the strange world of quantum
less of a confusement
less of a set of contradictory statements.
Now you see it now you don’t.
Was Schrödinger’s cat truly there/not there?
The equations say Yes
as they are folded into Hilbert space
and all becomes obvious.
Even to our post party undergraduate brains.

……remembering back to University………