040221b

 

On Jupiter, it turns out, tornadoes are typically several hundred miles wide. Pity about the colony.

091620d

 

No life possible on a gas giant, as this article says?

https://scitechdaily.com/can-alien-life-survive-a-stars-death-webb-space-telescope-will-reveal-the-answer/  

 

a million Earths

in Jupiter's Goldilocks skies

nothing wonders there?

life floats above hot Venus

J ain't chopped liver ya know

081419c

the coolest pad
this side of Pluto
Mercury's icy pole

041419b

A Small Zoo

only one life form remains on this planet

is the planet, really

that's where you “visitors” come in

Mogul III is hungry

040919

and the ship moved on
pushing the planetesimals aside
no rocky world coming now
no CHONic wrigglers

110618b

two planets

share an atmosphere

airships rise and fall

091918b

As the planet expanded
The innermost moon dipped lower and lower
Eventually, it grazed the surface
Mountains shattered
High plateaus were grooved
There came a time when it dived below the surface
Leaving mole-like ridges above its course
After a certain depth
No surface expression could be seen
Soon the people forgot
There had ever been a moon
It became a thing of legend, folktale, imagination
Until The next one was overtaken
By the planet in its turn

050218c

this planet
really is alive
 and it's very hungry
Gaia
no longer just a hypothesis

040418c

erstwhile planet
dim Plutonian dawn
brings life to ice

121616b

And that, my dears, is why the rings

The planet collected moons:

two became three, then four, then five

as the children grew more numerous,

naturally, they shrank;

with crowding came strife

they butted heads

and other parts

till there were so many

chips off the old blocks

their parent felt surrounded

but this was a product of two dimensional thinking

after all, the poles saw nothing but clear sky

and stars

and the moons?

nought but dust now

092414

Planetary Poem


Goddess of the burning rock,
choking fumes on heated plains,
sexy she is really not,
& Venus is her name.