Starship Asterisk*

bystander wrote:[attachment=0]Horsehead_of_a_Different_Color.jpg[/attachment] Here you go ed, a "horsehead of a different color" avatar.

Thanks! I needed a new head!

Here's the wider view I've got. It does look a little pink in seeing more of the horse. Must be the way the light is reflecting in the wider view. The horse shoes do look a little thick at the bottom of the nebulegs. InfraPink? (Ed will want to know her IP address.) All I can say is to repeat what ...

Maybe we should look for signs of intelligent life… i.e., are there too many cars causing globular warming…?

Beautiful IR detail of one of my favorite space objects. I still see the horse head and wonder at the "gaseous" detail. Contrasting tail of recognition… I was driving the other day and thought I saw one of my neighbors walking down the street so I commenced to blow my horn and wave only to...

Poetry is in the mind of the beholder. Be it Greek or otherwise. This isn’t exactly poetry in the classical sense but it's positive reinforcement about getting older… which even you, Mister Beyond, are doing… as we speak... One thing I’ve noticed is that as we age we appear to become smarter… which ...

prominence perseveringly pictured

earthbound and down

“…[taking] the road less traveled by” brought to mind a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama , wherein a group of human explorers intercepted an alien starship and upon landing on it encountered a door/hatch with a wheel. After futile attempts trying to open the door by turning the wheel ...

Cool. Ms. Emily wasn't always depressed.

I have a good friend named Yuri, maybe that's a popular Russian name.

Happy first man in space day!

Technology’s made us keenly aware of certain aspects of our planet’s health. Seems the most vocal tend to focus on the negative. I expect us to fix things when they’re broken. I expect the Earth to do the same. ISS has a pretty cool vantage point. It’s not so pale and frail looking up close. Me… I’m...

Thank you for all your posts neufer, especially this one.

What I gleaned… Don’t be satisfied with what I know.

I thought satellite also since it seems to maintain color and geometry

K1NS, you are right on topic. Mostly the night sky is calming for me… doesn’t usually change much. For me, the cosmic violence is overshadowed by its apparent stability from our spaceship’s distance. Outer space does make me think. I see Art in the sky… mostly aesthetic thoughts… then there’s the mu...

I'm sorry, but where are the sections for Princess Bride quotes and gaming references? Surely Settlers of Catan information is stored with other game information and not all mixed in with "Useless Trivia"! And don't Douglas Adam books warrant their own section? Not to mention that the &qu...

Shining like a work of art Hanging on a wall of stars Are you what I think you are? You're my satellite You're riding with me tonight Passenger side, lighting the sky Always the first star that I find You're my satellite Elevator to the moon Whistling our favorite tune Trying to get a closer view Yo...

Neufer's post is an apropos reflection. Speaking of reflections... A horse is a horse unless it's something else. In eighth grade art class, I started a plaster sculpture modeling the Blue Horse logo. I had to change it to a ram head when I carved the ears too short.

astronomy reverie

earth spins to the night
night unveils heaven’s light
tending imagination’s quest
my captive soul discovers rest

April Fool’s is the day after Easter… so hide the eggs, let the kids find them… then tell them those aren’t the eggs you hid.

When the night shows the signals grow on radios All the strange things they come and go, as early warnings Stranded starfish have no place to hide still waiting for the swollen Easter tide There's no point in direction we cannot even choose a side. I took the old track the hollow shoulder, across th...

I'm very impressed by the two people who've been courageous enough to post poems they have written themselves. I only write poetry (not very good poetry...) when I'm seriously unhappy. The thing is, when I go back to read the poems, I can't remember just what the unhappiness was that triggered the ...

Thank you MargaritaMc! I’m very glad you like my poem! It is featured on my recreational website.

Art in movement… just like the galaxies!

life’s flame burns like fusion
propagating emotion like starlit nebulae
who can hide from its beckoning
to the stars… onward outward… ever reaching
for love’s reward