Universal Poetic forms

Haiku

Telescope observes

Binary stars pirouette

In eternal dance

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Sonnet

Gas particles in fatal attraction

Gathering together, they coalesce

Critical mass, begins a reaction

Yielding of gravity’s gentle caress

Then bursting to life, this beacon stands proud

Darkness now vanquished, to borders beyond

Light radiates, as she shrugs off her shroud

Yet held captive within gravity’s bond

 

Unto death and beyond, he owns her soul

Her life determined by all gathered mass

To die within the dark, of a black hole

Or explode in glory, of burning gas

 

Fate is many millennia away

Till then she will shine, throughout each new day

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Triolet

What secrets doth thou hide from thee

Below atmospheres misty veil

Emerald sky, and crimson sea

What secrets doth thou hide from thee

Yet to reveal, but one detail

Alien wonders of beauty

What secrets doth thou hide from thee

Below atmospheres misty veil

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Nanni

Mystics gaze skyward

Feel the universal spirit

Poetry and beauty

Of the stars

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Brevette

Moons

O r b i t i n g

Worlds

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Limerick

I was once told a tale, by a preacher

Which I thought a peculiar feature

He let it be known

Mankind was alone

No biblical mention, of an alien creature

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Villanelle

On a clear, dark night, look to the sky

Marvel at the wonder, you may see there

Yet know each star, will burn out and die.

 

Gaze back through time, to days gone by

To millennia who knows, when or where

On a clear, dark night, look to the sky

 

Questions to be asked, such as how or why?

Are there for each man to share

Yet know each star, will burn out and die.

 

Answers that you seek, you cannot deny

What matters, is if you should care

On a clear, dark night, look to the sky

 

For your moment here, is but a sigh

To the universe, you cannot compare

Yet know each star, will burn out and die.

 

Your life shall pass, in the blink of an eye

So live it well, and do all you dare

On a clear, dark night, look to the sky

Yet know each star, will burn out and die.

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Quatrain

The mysterious thing, about the known universe

Is that it appears, to be quite diverse

Some people quite clever, say it expands forever

While others believe, it may soon reverse.

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Fabonacci

Sun

Moon

Planets

Galaxies

Billions of Stars

Other interstellar objects

With hidden dark matter, in the spaces between them

Yet we have only just begun to explore, the objects which make up our universe

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