Moonlight glints
On the silent vales
Dressed crisply
In winters cloak
Lying like rippled
silk
On the frozen land
Thursday 16 June 2022
MOONLIGHT GLINTS
ARE YOU WEARING A SPACESUIT?
Are you wearing a spacesuit?
Good that makes two of
us
Because I'm an
astronaut and
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
Wednesday 15 June 2022
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
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