Cosmos (Single Word Challenge)

Welcome all Poetry Please members and anyone who should find these poems. The images are all in the public domain and can be used for any purpose according to the National Space Science Data Center These images can all be found there or at the Hubble Site.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

Cosmos

Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions

Jellyfish floating
Luminescent tentacles
Electrical sting

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-astro-galaxy.html





Cosmic Searchlight

Darkness surrounds point
Bright shining moment in space
Reaching across time


http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2000/20/image/a






Lava Flows

Molten lava flows
Into tide pool eddying
Golden and ruby

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-astro-nebula.html






An Eye on Space

Crystal clear green pool
Island floating in center
Atop rolling hill

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1996/07/







It is All Up in the Air

Juggler throws torches
Neon spinning end on end
Creates night flowers

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1997/11/text/







Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula

Wispy dragon wings
Whirling, battling to the death
Falling from the sky

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-astro-nebula.html









Eagle Nebula

Tall alien forms
Glowing red eyes, stubby arms
Eerie space creatures

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-astro-nebula.html

2003/2007 © Sue Barton

This is posted in response to Tracey W's challenge at Poetry Please prompt for 10/01/07  - Cosmos.

If you enjoyed these poems, you might like to read some more. To see a complete listing of the poems I have posted on Gather, follow this link.

The images are all in the public domain and can be used for any purpose according to the National Space Science Data Center These images can all be found there or at the Hubble Site.