foam
Carina Nebula – from Hubble
foam
canned cream
at your mouth
in your face
fall flat air bubble fairies
toothlessly smiling
with balding hair
of baby similitude
like bellwort slobber
sputtering radioactive blood
cold, solid steam
carbonated, chlorinated
fumigated, undulated
meta foam
like carpal fountains
of spread fingers
certified, personified,
versified foam
cools rage
quenches nightmares
smokeless frosting
delivered by messenger service
soothing, illimitable
universal soup of life
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Written for:
Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic writing
Image Credit:NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Posted on August 10, 2012, in D’verse Poets Pub, Poetry and tagged Carina Nebula, chirbit, dversepoets, foam poetry, foam vers, hubble, hubble telescope poetry, hubble telescope verse, NASA, online poetry, poetics, Poetry Blogroll, poetry prompt, poetry sharing, prompted verse, space poetry, space verse. Bookmark the permalink. 25 Comments.
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ZONGRIK 
I think of this as Whipped cream rather than space cream!!!! But it definitely soothes people. k.
I feel like having a foamy cappuccino all of a sudden. 🙂 Very nice write. Savoring the descriptions and sense from this as I read. I really like your poems on space and these amazing objects in space.
I love photos of nebulae and this poem is spectacular, Tammy. If I’m understanding it correctly, this is a such a great metaphor for our Universe. I did a series of cosmic paintings a few years ago, focusing on nebulae.
each pass through i get a little more, very nice layering for me to explore, thank you 😉
esp liked,
“versified foam
cools rage
quenches nightmares
smokeless frosting”
Can’t say that you have made it sound particularly appetizing. LOL.
Universal soup of life… nice. 🙂
Powerful!
Very interesting poem. Lots to ponder here!
Whoo…sounds like your hawking something I’ve gotta have! Except for maybe the “sputtering radioactive blood”…no, don’t need any of that today… Love that Hubble photo…amazing…does resemble foam..
great call – i just watched this last night – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNH3Z4m363o
Wow..what are the odds that I used the word “hawking”… I watched the first part of the series just now…I’m very interested in his story. Benedict Cumberbatch makes for a very handsome young Stephen Hawking.
it def is cool to look at…you got some pretty cool description in there…and wicked flow as always…love the pic too
A fun piece…yet giving me plenty of cosmic images to ponder…and yes to taste..
may i call you the cosmic impressionist…? smiles.. you always take me to other spaces with your writing…literally..
Really cool flow of words here, comes across nicely in the poem itself, but really comes to life in your reading, very cool.
I love Claudia’s comment…love this line also “universal soup of life” Great piece!
Wonderful to see the principles of impressionism transferred from gardens to space
Dear friend,
A very interesting poem with a great photo. Thanks for sharing.
This took me lots of places–it actually made me think of poetry being the foam, but I do love the photo, and I’m sure this relates to some cosmic attribute which I can enjoy without understanding.
Choppy, mashed and purified by a (pro)sy barista…enjoyed your foamy poem♫♪
Enchanted!
I loved this stanza:
fall flat air bubble fairies
toothlessly smiling
with balding hair
of baby similitude
like bellwort slobber
sputtering radioactive blood
I loved the way you’ve used the metophors.
What an amazing soup of imagery!
It’s great to hear your voice! And the photo is brilliant! The poem goes well with it.
Thanks for your visit and comment. Have a great new week!
Beautifully impressionistic.
some impressive sequences of phrasing/words