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