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.