Poems For The Outer Space

The Star that They Surround

Who is that golden ball of fire

That they revolve around and reflect light?

Who is that yellow snowball:

Flaring like a group of candlewicks blazing

In a xanthoball of wax, floating in the black wilderness-

With distant blobs of blue, yellow, and red,

Clumping aside from their own systems,

Into galaxies, superclusters, and then the universe?

Rocky globes of different gases and land-

They get divided into black and white.
Dirty snowballs get their tails,

Space potatoes continue to separate the Jovians and the Rocky Planets.

The aurorae decorates the Earth's skies-

Creating a giant lantern for the day and leaving the Moon to reflect sunlight-

Radiating warmth to the biotic and the nonliving, but-

Sometimes, it gets too warm, pricking the skin,

Leaving red blotches and a grimace-
Sending people into beaches and springs,

Pushing animals to forage for shade and water.

What is this huge fireball

That blinds those who see it in the naked eye-

And sends invisible violet light?

- 5 • 1 • 2018 -

(It's the Sun.)