Fire Star
1527 Comet Gouache watercolor Anonymous How brazenly you shimmer Reclining beneath A humpbacked moon Smoldering red Scintillating Against crushed velvet You scorch the air around you With crimson flames And glowing embers Your star fire Has engulfed us In its fury Blistering the ebony night With each flash Of a luminous face The visage I now gaze Tenderly upon After the tumult While the heat dissipates Leaving silver moon drops Upon celestial bodies LiNdA ...
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Vintage Russian postcard (From Russia with Love) In the blue light of a moving train The Summer Triangle shimmers aloft Glistening Vega whispers to Lyra The secrets of an impassioned tryst The images inside her trembling eyelids The flash of gold against Midnight’s cobalt The warmth of darkened dreaming Enveloped within amethyst folds The traveled steps upon distant stars The glimmering path to an open doorway Through which you enter silently brushing Dust motes fallen from an ancient edifice Specks of ash from the burning pyre Drifting across the multiverse The one we inhabit undisturbed No such fire shall consume it For we belong to starlit night In the burnished sun we do not dwell We have escaped the moving train With prolific love expanding LiNdA...
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4 x 6 watercolor A pale shimmer Beyond her darkened face A fragranced effusion Along a vaulted trajectory So far and away At last receiving Our hypnotic whispers The doomed star In a black hole’s grasp The fading light And flickering dust Burning out Her death cry A wrenching echo LiNdA
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GRB 110328A A 3.8 billion-light-year galaxy with a supermassive black hole that has swallowed a bypassing star. Image credit: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Field Camera 3 April 4, 2011 A pale shimmer Beyond her darkened face A fragranced effusion Along a vaulted trajectory So far and away At last receiving Our hypnotic whispers The doomed star In a black hole’s grasp The fading light And flickering dust Burning out Her death cry A wrenching echo LiNdA ...
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From the palette of grey A blush emerges Tingeing a shy smile That eclipse now The Rings of Saturn Before our searching eyes Iridescent clouds Illuminating the magic Forming a spiral Fueled by the Solar Wind And the pull of Saturn’s enchantment A seductive aura And notes of mysticsm Descend from the sky We are ensnared In the roiling storm And beseech the Heavens We reach out our arms Grasping for deliverance Succumbing to the fever And the Clouds part To reveal The Shining Globe Whose rays blaze Across the Great Distance To light the beauty of The Rings That reflect back A cascade of gems Scattered upon the Clouds Which we gaze upon With awe and wonder Our hearts alive and joyous LiNdA ...
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1836 Eclipse image showing Bailey’s Beads from “A Fourteen Weeks Course in Descriptive Astronomy” by J. Dorman Steele, Ph.d. Dabai Mea August 21, 2017 11:38:39 a.m. Sun, Moon (Shoshone) Crowheart, WY Grandfather Sun Grandmother Moon Their death and rebirth On a hidden path of boulders In a field of rushing darkness An icy stillness surrounds The passing of a cosmic force A flowering glow released That blooms behind an ebonized orb The centered life of all beings Cast into wondrous restraint For that everlasting moment When two souls intersect For the briefest of aeons LiNdA...
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