Astronomy Haiku 1-5-21
Jan. 10th, 2021 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThis poetry came out of the January 5, 2021 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It also fills the "Creation" square in my 1-3-21 card for the Fresh Starts Bingo fest. This section marks the beginning of this year's Astronomy Haiku poetry collection. The second installment is on "Creation."
All planets in this poetry collection are played by genuine celestial bodies, described with available scientific instruments and interpretations, then topped with a sprinkle of poetic language; plus a few theoretical examples extrapolated as variations on known celestial configurations. See footnotes for scientific references.
Exotic Planets
the discovery
of the first exoplanet
opened up the skies
* * *
icy eyeball stares
sunward: liquid ocean like
vitreous humor
* * *
hot eyeball planet --
half frozen and half toasted --
between them, life's ring
* * *
strange planets orbit
the superdense neutron stars:
so mysterious
* * *
a carbon planet:
underneath its graphite crust,
a core of diamond
* * *
a snowball planet
shelters a secret ocean
teeming with sealife
* * *
chthonian planet,
its naked core hot enough
to vaporize lead
* * *
eccentric planet:
arroje y giro con
su amado sol
* * *
rogue planet wanders,
a cat who walks by himself
in the wild space
* * *
a hot, Neptune-sized
planet seems to lack methane --
what is going on?
* * *
cannonball planet:
steel core covered by lakes of
iron carbonyl
* * *
a charcoal planet
absorbs all light, dark and strange,
yet glows like a hot coal
* * *
three-body orbit --
planets can be poly too,
circling two stars
* * *
the fast planet, like
a stampeding elephant,
hurtles 'round its star
* * *
peculiar planet,
the galaxy's biggest cork
would float on water
* * *
hot face sunward, cold
spaceward, hottest to one side:
planet mystery
* * *
bright yellow by day,
glowing red by night: planet
of lava oceans
* * *
the quickyear planet
races around its sun
in only six hours
* * *
punching bag planet,
forever knocked off course, now
orbits retrograde
* * *
cloud atlas describes
planets hazed by molten quartz,
or smog, or rubies
* * *
bodybuilder world --
densest planet discovered,
rock heavy as lead
* * *
alien oceans
could hold ammonia, even
sulfuric acid
* * *
steambath planet
laughs at preconceptions and
lounges in sunlight
* * *
super-puff planets:
cotton candy density,
a sweet attractor
* * *
tiny star dances
with giant exoplanet,
trampling theories
* * *
so big, so far out:
distant super-Jupiters
mystify viewers
* * *
the super-Earths are
rocky leviathans -- why
not form gas giants?
* * *
a hot Jupiter
whizzes closer to its star:
moth around lantern
* * *
forecast: cloudy with
chance of liquid iron rain
ultrahot giant
* * *
hot Jupiter: clouds
of aluminum oxide,
titanium rain
* * *
ultrahot Neptune
in the hot Neptune desert:
sunbathing lizard
* * *
strangewater planet --
neither gas nor liquid worn,
but an enigma
* * *
triple star system's
protoplanetary disk --
tattered by planets?
* * *
gas giant's stone moon
three stars on the horizon:
Watchers and the Sun
* * *
older and wetter,
superhabitable worlds
are better than Earth
* * *
young star, big planet
roaming far then coming home:
secure attachment
* * *
its shrieking blue winds,
seven times the speed of sound,
can rain glass sideways
* * *
two hells for the price
of one: a rain of stones and
a frozen wasteland
* * *
hugging a strange star,
a planet of burning ice --
wait, where's the methane?
* * *
planet Janssen is
formed of fire and ash
from its volcanoes
* * *
elongated world
slowly sucked away by its
sun: how many licks?
* * *
Trappist 1b sees
the light of six blood-red "moons"
(they're really planets)
* * *
a mini-Neptune
might have water, might have life --
common miracle
* * *
a Trojan planet,
its gas giant, and their star:
three is company
* * *
the pulsar Lich has
minion planets: Phobetor,
Poltergeist, Draugr
* * *
Tatooine planet:
farthest from the bright center,
yet still beautiful
* * *
styrofoam planet
its atmosphere inflated
by a close, hot star
* * *
Fomalhaut b has
a 2000-year orbit --
and we can see it
* * *
orbiting around
51 Pegasi b:
the Four-Day Planet
* * *
a planet around
Proxima Centauri b:
our next-door neighbor
* * *
Notes:
This section is long, so its notes appear separately.
All planets in this poetry collection are played by genuine celestial bodies, described with available scientific instruments and interpretations, then topped with a sprinkle of poetic language; plus a few theoretical examples extrapolated as variations on known celestial configurations. See footnotes for scientific references.
Exotic Planets
the discovery
of the first exoplanet
opened up the skies
* * *
icy eyeball stares
sunward: liquid ocean like
vitreous humor
* * *
hot eyeball planet --
half frozen and half toasted --
between them, life's ring
* * *
strange planets orbit
the superdense neutron stars:
so mysterious
* * *
a carbon planet:
underneath its graphite crust,
a core of diamond
* * *
a snowball planet
shelters a secret ocean
teeming with sealife
* * *
chthonian planet,
its naked core hot enough
to vaporize lead
* * *
eccentric planet:
arroje y giro con
su amado sol
* * *
rogue planet wanders,
a cat who walks by himself
in the wild space
* * *
a hot, Neptune-sized
planet seems to lack methane --
what is going on?
* * *
cannonball planet:
steel core covered by lakes of
iron carbonyl
* * *
a charcoal planet
absorbs all light, dark and strange,
yet glows like a hot coal
* * *
three-body orbit --
planets can be poly too,
circling two stars
* * *
the fast planet, like
a stampeding elephant,
hurtles 'round its star
* * *
peculiar planet,
the galaxy's biggest cork
would float on water
* * *
hot face sunward, cold
spaceward, hottest to one side:
planet mystery
* * *
bright yellow by day,
glowing red by night: planet
of lava oceans
* * *
the quickyear planet
races around its sun
in only six hours
* * *
punching bag planet,
forever knocked off course, now
orbits retrograde
* * *
cloud atlas describes
planets hazed by molten quartz,
or smog, or rubies
* * *
bodybuilder world --
densest planet discovered,
rock heavy as lead
* * *
alien oceans
could hold ammonia, even
sulfuric acid
* * *
steambath planet
laughs at preconceptions and
lounges in sunlight
* * *
super-puff planets:
cotton candy density,
a sweet attractor
* * *
tiny star dances
with giant exoplanet,
trampling theories
* * *
so big, so far out:
distant super-Jupiters
mystify viewers
* * *
the super-Earths are
rocky leviathans -- why
not form gas giants?
* * *
a hot Jupiter
whizzes closer to its star:
moth around lantern
* * *
forecast: cloudy with
chance of liquid iron rain
ultrahot giant
* * *
hot Jupiter: clouds
of aluminum oxide,
titanium rain
* * *
ultrahot Neptune
in the hot Neptune desert:
sunbathing lizard
* * *
strangewater planet --
neither gas nor liquid worn,
but an enigma
* * *
triple star system's
protoplanetary disk --
tattered by planets?
* * *
gas giant's stone moon
three stars on the horizon:
Watchers and the Sun
* * *
older and wetter,
superhabitable worlds
are better than Earth
* * *
young star, big planet
roaming far then coming home:
secure attachment
* * *
its shrieking blue winds,
seven times the speed of sound,
can rain glass sideways
* * *
two hells for the price
of one: a rain of stones and
a frozen wasteland
* * *
hugging a strange star,
a planet of burning ice --
wait, where's the methane?
* * *
planet Janssen is
formed of fire and ash
from its volcanoes
* * *
elongated world
slowly sucked away by its
sun: how many licks?
* * *
Trappist 1b sees
the light of six blood-red "moons"
(they're really planets)
* * *
a mini-Neptune
might have water, might have life --
common miracle
* * *
a Trojan planet,
its gas giant, and their star:
three is company
* * *
the pulsar Lich has
minion planets: Phobetor,
Poltergeist, Draugr
* * *
Tatooine planet:
farthest from the bright center,
yet still beautiful
* * *
styrofoam planet
its atmosphere inflated
by a close, hot star
* * *
Fomalhaut b has
a 2000-year orbit --
and we can see it
* * *
orbiting around
51 Pegasi b:
the Four-Day Planet
* * *
a planet around
Proxima Centauri b:
our next-door neighbor
* * *
Notes:
This section is long, so its notes appear separately.
