Stellar

Luminous orbs suspend in endless night

Twinkling stellar sequins, cosmic candlelight

Worlds away yet visible in the dark curtain's sight

Distant suns, infinite, shine their fey light.

Celestial forest, sea of stars strewn far and wide

Fiery spheres in darkness colliding, burning bright

Suns birthing, dying in time's turning tide

As stardust scatters, recombining into new life.

Across galaxies stars gather, cosmic congregation

Suns of all sizes, colors and configurations

Red giants, white dwarfs, supernova creations

Radiant necklaces illuminating the heavens.

What distant tales, sagas and histories they hold

Stellar storytellers in the celestial fold

Ancient worlds spinning myths forever retold

In the sky's glittering blackness, courageous and bold.

Majestic heavens breathing mystery and awe

As endless space expands without limit or law

The sparkling sky stirs imagination without flaw

As above Earth unfolds cosmic drama and lore.

What secrets, clues to our existence lie in the stars?

What messages, omens, truth or illusion in their skeins?

Do they guide or laugh at this planet's wars?

Do their patterns live in our cells, brains?

Circle of life unending as novas flare

New stars forged from remnants of dying ones there

What consciousness blinks in that vastness so fair?

As comets trail stardust, lighting the darkness with flair.

In night's rich tapestry, darkness embroidered with light

Moon's glow, planets shine, starfire ignition

Below heavens mirroring earth, the source of insight

As above, below connect in cosmic vision.

To chart the stars humankind builds great towers

Science probing the century's magic hours

As we technology's power, are we any wiser?

When multitudes still suffer, no human dividends rife.

Still we watch skies hoping for wisdom's descent

Scouring star patterns for ancient clues sent

Do meteors bring heaven's messages?

Do eclipses signal warnings we can't circumvent?

In starry nights we search for meaning's emergence

In glittering seas find imagination's convergence

In darkness lit, see poetry's radiance

Overwhelmed by the sublime's utter transcendence.

On cosmic voyage, lone speck orbiting one star

Our tiny craft tries understanding from afar

This gift called life, how rare, how bizarre

Spun of stardust, mid galaxies that avast.

As above, so below, we look to the night

Finding in darkness both peace and fright

In the heavens' grace, faith still takes flight

As wondrous worlds wheel, distant fires ignite.

So we watch and wonder what more will be revealed

From astronomical heights, to what depths knowledge will yield

As stars march on overhead, ancient and regal

Our place in the universe, still unsure, trivial.

But still we dream, imagine, build great glass eyes

That probe the depths of countless night skies

We order stars, write their celestial stories

Spinning science and myth across eons, the heaven's grandeur never dies.

For stardust glitters, sprinkled across the black dome

Its magic stirring dreams of far futures and ancient lost homes

As we contemplate our place small amid the unknown

In endless space where stars wheel, watch and atone.