Falling Stars
poem137 total reviews
Comment from Benny Beeharry
Great imagery of the sky and the shooting stars.
They fall but the beauty they trail behind is great. And the emotion you described so well here is still greater.
Thank you.
Benny Beeharry
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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Great imagery of the sky and the shooting stars.
They fall but the beauty they trail behind is great. And the emotion you described so well here is still greater.
Thank you.
Benny Beeharry
Comment Written 15-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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Benny, thank you so much :-) Brooke
Comment from rosehill (Wendy)
How wonderful to sit and sip my coffee - after the frantic pace of serving breakfast to a host of hungry guests - and revel in the simplicity of your sweet poem. I love the theatre reference and the way it took me mentally, to the show that stars put on for us each night. I need to look up and appreciate that view more often. - Wendy
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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How wonderful to sit and sip my coffee - after the frantic pace of serving breakfast to a host of hungry guests - and revel in the simplicity of your sweet poem. I love the theatre reference and the way it took me mentally, to the show that stars put on for us each night. I need to look up and appreciate that view more often. - Wendy
Comment Written 15-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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Wendy, thank you so much :-) Brooke
Comment from Ekim777
Succinctly put, as always. (I love the word) Racine once said; " Great writing can be created by making something out of nothing. I'm sure you'll understand this. A falling star is a dying fragment and yet the night skies never fail to shine its light. Your final verse is very fine.-Ekim777
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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Succinctly put, as always. (I love the word) Racine once said; " Great writing can be created by making something out of nothing. I'm sure you'll understand this. A falling star is a dying fragment and yet the night skies never fail to shine its light. Your final verse is very fine.-Ekim777
Comment Written 15-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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Thanks so much, Ekim :-) Brooke
Comment from Pyrrho
As usual, you bring a smile to my face and pleasure to my life. It never ceases to amaze me that we are looking at lights from yesterday to 14 million years ago when we check out the stars. And we are looking at the history of all living animals and plants when we study DNA. Boggles the mind, doesn't it.
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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As usual, you bring a smile to my face and pleasure to my life. It never ceases to amaze me that we are looking at lights from yesterday to 14 million years ago when we check out the stars. And we are looking at the history of all living animals and plants when we study DNA. Boggles the mind, doesn't it.
Comment Written 15-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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Pyrrho, it is good to hear from you :-) Thanks so much. Brooke
Comment from Father Flaps
Hi Brooke
As an amateur astronomer, I really enjoyed this short poem about space and time. It's only been the past 13 years or so I finally realized that the stars we see on a clear night are suns in the Milky Way galaxy. Our Sun is not alone except in our own tiny solar system. If our Sun fell from the sky, we wouldn't even know it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
150,000,000 Km............distance form the Sun to Earth
300,000 Km/sec........the approximate speed of light
Divide these two, and the answer is 500 seconds, or 8 minutes/20 seconds.
When we look into space, we are actually looking backwards in time. When we look at the Sun, we're looking approximately 8 minutes into the past. If we were to look at the nearest star (sun) to the Earth, Alpha Centauri, we're looking approximately 4 years into the past because it takes light 4 years to reach us from AC. So realistically, Alpha Centauri could explode (fall from the sky), and we wouldn't even know it for four years!
Our universe is so vast it's incomprehensible. We can see the closest galaxy to us with the naked eye on a moonless night. Andromeda is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light years away. It is easy to find in the Great Square of Pegasus, which is overhead in the night sky from September to March. Pegasus is made up of four bright stars...Algenib, Markab, Scheat, and Alpheratz. Alpheratz (I like to call it the Rat Star) is the most northern of the group. If you drew a line to the two brightest stars to the west (say, a short crooked arm), and then turned your eye north again for two more bright stars, you would locate our neighbour, Andromeda. Even simple binoculars would make it a wonderful sight. If you still can't pick out Andromeda, another helpful "pointer" would be the arrow in Cassiopeia. It points to Andromeda. Brilliant minds predict that Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in around 4 billion years. Imagine that one! Light from Andromeda takes 2 1/2 million years to travel to earth at 669,600,000 miles/hour!~ The light we see now from Andromeda left that galaxy before cave men discovered fire! Isn't that wild? And that's our nearest neighbouring galaxy. Our local group contains around 47 galaxies. And, according to a 2013 study, there are about 225 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
Ah, this stuff boggles the mind. Your poem is more to the point.
"The sky can fill with falling stars
and never lose its light,
for multitudes of stars that stay
still sparkle in the night." ...I love your choice of words in "multitudes". How better to say it? The night sky is filled with stars that sparkle...even if a few "fall". You bring the night sky to life. It's personification at its finest.
"And though I'll never see again
those stars that took a fall,
I can't regret the beauty of
their final curtain call." ...It's exciting to see a shooting star as a meteor burns up in our atmosphere. Some meteorites actually hit the earth's surface. It's an unforgettable sight, the most beautiful shade of green you can imagine! I'm 64 years old, and I've only seen two. Quite a "curtain call"!
Nicely penned, Brooke!
your fan,
Kimbob
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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Hi Brooke
As an amateur astronomer, I really enjoyed this short poem about space and time. It's only been the past 13 years or so I finally realized that the stars we see on a clear night are suns in the Milky Way galaxy. Our Sun is not alone except in our own tiny solar system. If our Sun fell from the sky, we wouldn't even know it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
150,000,000 Km............distance form the Sun to Earth
300,000 Km/sec........the approximate speed of light
Divide these two, and the answer is 500 seconds, or 8 minutes/20 seconds.
When we look into space, we are actually looking backwards in time. When we look at the Sun, we're looking approximately 8 minutes into the past. If we were to look at the nearest star (sun) to the Earth, Alpha Centauri, we're looking approximately 4 years into the past because it takes light 4 years to reach us from AC. So realistically, Alpha Centauri could explode (fall from the sky), and we wouldn't even know it for four years!
Our universe is so vast it's incomprehensible. We can see the closest galaxy to us with the naked eye on a moonless night. Andromeda is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light years away. It is easy to find in the Great Square of Pegasus, which is overhead in the night sky from September to March. Pegasus is made up of four bright stars...Algenib, Markab, Scheat, and Alpheratz. Alpheratz (I like to call it the Rat Star) is the most northern of the group. If you drew a line to the two brightest stars to the west (say, a short crooked arm), and then turned your eye north again for two more bright stars, you would locate our neighbour, Andromeda. Even simple binoculars would make it a wonderful sight. If you still can't pick out Andromeda, another helpful "pointer" would be the arrow in Cassiopeia. It points to Andromeda. Brilliant minds predict that Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in around 4 billion years. Imagine that one! Light from Andromeda takes 2 1/2 million years to travel to earth at 669,600,000 miles/hour!~ The light we see now from Andromeda left that galaxy before cave men discovered fire! Isn't that wild? And that's our nearest neighbouring galaxy. Our local group contains around 47 galaxies. And, according to a 2013 study, there are about 225 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
Ah, this stuff boggles the mind. Your poem is more to the point.
"The sky can fill with falling stars
and never lose its light,
for multitudes of stars that stay
still sparkle in the night." ...I love your choice of words in "multitudes". How better to say it? The night sky is filled with stars that sparkle...even if a few "fall". You bring the night sky to life. It's personification at its finest.
"And though I'll never see again
those stars that took a fall,
I can't regret the beauty of
their final curtain call." ...It's exciting to see a shooting star as a meteor burns up in our atmosphere. Some meteorites actually hit the earth's surface. It's an unforgettable sight, the most beautiful shade of green you can imagine! I'm 64 years old, and I've only seen two. Quite a "curtain call"!
Nicely penned, Brooke!
your fan,
Kimbob
Comment Written 15-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 15-Nov-2014
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Kimbob, thank you so very much, my friend, for your great review. It is always so interesting to read the information you share because it is always so obvious to me that you really care about "stuff." You read my poems and that triggers so many fascinating thoughts. So many people read my poems and think about how to write enough words to make their review long enough to be acceptable. LOL :-) Brooke
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Oops! I neglected to tell you that I liked the alliteration of
"fill with falling"
and "curtain call"... see, I'm not perfect! But I do try.
Have a wonderful day, Brooke. Did you get some snow? So many places got the white stuff this past week. Winter introduced himself, the bugger dressed in white. I wish he was a stranger still, the dirty phagocyte.
cheers
Kimbob
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we got a coating, just enough to have to scrape the windshield before getting on the road yesterday - compared to the couple of feet some got, we were very lucky
Comment from skye
The falling stars are wishing stars, and their purpose in my life is to make magic.
You captured the beauty of these stars in your creative rhyming lines.
Excellent.
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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The falling stars are wishing stars, and their purpose in my life is to make magic.
You captured the beauty of these stars in your creative rhyming lines.
Excellent.
Comment Written 14-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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Skye, thank you so much :-) Brooke
Comment from Poetofheart2013
A very pretty poem about stars its full of imaging you painted a picture with words. I could see the stars as I read it
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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A very pretty poem about stars its full of imaging you painted a picture with words. I could see the stars as I read it
Comment Written 14-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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poetoftheheart, thank you so much :-) Brooke
Comment from rod007
This simplicity of this verse holds the magical key to unlocking its effectiveness as it showers us with the sparkling falling stars. Well done, Brooke.
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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This simplicity of this verse holds the magical key to unlocking its effectiveness as it showers us with the sparkling falling stars. Well done, Brooke.
Comment Written 14-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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thank you, rod, for your thoughtful response to this poem :-) Brooke
Comment from BeasPeas
This is a WOW! Two stanzas telling a little story--but how potent it is. All lines are equally important and build upon one another to a wonderful finish. I'd give you 6 stars if I had them.
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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This is a WOW! Two stanzas telling a little story--but how potent it is. All lines are equally important and build upon one another to a wonderful finish. I'd give you 6 stars if I had them.
Comment Written 14-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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Thank you so very much, BeasPeas :-) Brooke
Comment from Joan E.
I very much liked your "curtain call" metaphor and rhymed quatrains. Your alliteration of "s's" added to the intensity of your message. Cheers- Joan
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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I very much liked your "curtain call" metaphor and rhymed quatrains. Your alliteration of "s's" added to the intensity of your message. Cheers- Joan
Comment Written 14-Nov-2014
reply by the author on 14-Nov-2014
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Joan, thank you so much :-) Brooke
