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

I SEE THE BRIGHT STARS HIGH ABOVE ME

 

I see the bright stars high above me

I almost feel they are a part of me

But as each one sparkles like a gem

I know one day I will be part of them

 

SINCE THE BBC SACKED ALL THE DALEKS # 12

 

Since the BBC sacked all the Daleks

Most are just scrounging off the state

But there is one working as an elocutionist

He doesn’t really communicate

And it scares a lot of the clients

When it says Enunciate, Enunciate