astronomy
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National Poetry Month 30 – Planetary Arabesque
You’re in an iron boat on a mercury sea Where the heavy metal floats upon the Reflective waves of dense fluid With high-intensity magnetic fields Creating an aurora of charged particles Dancing in effervescent fervor. Imagine this scene, with a sky filled with A gas giant, its clouds swirling a Thousand miles an hour and…
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Lives of the Red Suns V
The Big Ones found a way to create tiny suns of their own, pocketing fusion into buildings all along the coast, pumping excess heat into the seas. Celebrations abounding over the endless energy allowing them to create a new world. They harvested protein from vats, they built enormous radio antennae to see the universe in…
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Lives of the Red Suns
PART ONE 60 Billion worlds fed under regal red giants. The dull red glow intolerable to adapted eyes, like stoked fires burning white. The phototropic life evolved here to accept the light and nourish and flourish within its biome. There are some small self replicating creatures in the ‘underbrush,’ they have a need of…
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Star Power
There is a certain moment when our world turns its darkened face to our local star and its light shines upon it, and the small photovores consume its tasty effusion with what can only be joy. The nuclear reactions deep in the heated heart of it explode with beneficence, ensuring that the planetary retinue about…
The Numinous Cosmos 