MOONLIGHT GLINTS

Moonlight glints

On the silent vales

Dressed crisply

In winters cloak

Lying like rippled silk

On the frozen land

ARE YOU WEARING A SPACESUIT?

Are you wearing a spacesuit?

Good that makes two of us

Because I'm an astronaut and

My mission is to explore Uranus

 

ARE YOU WEARING SPACE PANTS?

 

Are you wearing space pants?

Well, your virtue may be imperilled

Because wearing those pants

Your arse is out of this world

AS THE EVENING LIGHT FADES

 

As the evening light fades

The sky takes on a twilight hue

Until the stars appear above

And the moon comes into view

A DAZZLING ARRAY OF STARS

 

A dazzling array of stars

Carpet the night sky

Enlivening the heart

And making spirits fly

AMIDST THE MYRIAD STARS

 

Amidst the myriad stars

The bright crescent moon

Hangs in the midnight sky

And palely paints the ocean

With its gentle lunar light

SATURN VI

 

Saturn VI

Iced water Titan

Largest Moon of Saturn

Dense Orange sphere

A planet like moon

Iced water Titan

TITAN’S

 

The powerful Titan’s

Giants of Greek Mythology

Born of Uranus and Gaea

Rulers of the earth

Brutally overthrown

By the Olympian Gods

LUMINARY STAR

 

Luminary star

Celestial body

Shine down

Life giving light

AURIGA

For the Auriga constellation

Look up into the northern sky

You will find the charioteer

Between Perseus and Gemini 

CERES

 

The frozen Dwarf planet Ceres,

The largest asteroid among the stars

Between the belted giant Jupiter

And the red planet of war Mars

PLUTO

Unknown to Gustav Holst

Pluto, the Dwarf planet

Inhabits the Kuiper belt

And is no longer the ninth planet

Of our solar system

Not even the biggest Dwaft

But Second to Eris 

MARS

 

Gustav Holst’s bringer of war

The red planet

A place of high mountains

And deep canyons

Red dust deserts

And frozen Polar Regions

VENUS

 

Gustav Holst’s bringer of peace

Second planet from the Sun,

Earth's "sister planet"

To the ancients

The Morning Star

Or the Evening Star

Shrouded by opaque

Highly reflective

Clouds of sulphuric acid

NEPTUNE

 

Gustav Holst’s Mystic

Farthest planet from the Sun

Beautiful ice giant

Whose brilliant blue

Appearance belies

The deadly atmosphere

Of frozen methane

URANUS

 

Gustav Holst’s magician

Beautiful ice giant

Whose clouds of methane

Present a featureless disk

Of blue-green colour

SATURN

 

Gustav Holst’s

The bringer of old age

In a state of perpetual storm

Saturn the mighty gas giant

With Iconic rings of dust and ice

An image comforting and reliant

 

MERCURY

 

Gustav Holst’s

Winged Messenger

The lifeless silver sphere

Races around our fiery star

As fast as its name’s sake

The fast-flying Roman deity,

Messenger to the gods

JUPITER

 

Gustav Holst’s

Bringer of Jollity

The mighty gas giant

Red belted Jupiter

Largest in the solar system

With its great red spot

A storm that has raged

For centuries