One of those poems that goes round and round in your head, once every 75-76 years.

Would that is as often as some of them return.  This one has been in my head off and on for the last two-three years.

  http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/happywanderer.html

HALLEY’S SONNET

I’ve watched the wonders of the world arise and fall
And many a king’s domain erode to dust
I heard the dinosaur’s last call
When something else from space fell to Earth’s crust

I saw great Edmond Halley breathe his last
While missing my return by sixteen years
Some say I was too slow, or he too fast
But comets have no hearts and shed no tears

For those who missed the light that I have shed
In former years when I have circled near
There is yet one more chance before you’re dead
Two thousand sixty one will be your year

I am the greatest gift God gave to men
A little tail to chase until the end

Well, all I know is that Hale-Bopp outdid Halleys by about a million%. Astronomy Picture of the Day has hundreds of gorgeous pictures of it, none of Halley that is worth the speck of light it was.

Try writing a sonnet about something named Bopp.

Salutations Saparris, you’ve actually written it!

HALLEY’S LIMERICK

Halley’s sonnet will dare to sally
Across the heavens occasionally
A frozen morass of uncertain diameter
Sweeps past in a seventyfive year pentameter

The warmth of the sun as it nears its abode
Prompts the waxing metier to unleash its ode

saparris - 30 August 2009 11:26 AM

Try writing a sonnet about something named Bopp.

First of all I would not try writing a sonnet.
I don’t appreciate poetry. I paint with oils, much more expressive, and I don’t need a thesaurus.

douglang - 30 August 2009 12:34 PM

Salutations Saparris, you’ve actually written it!

HALLEY’S LIMERICK

Halley’s sonnet will dare to sally
Across the heavens occasionally
A frozen morass of uncertain diameter
Sweeps past in a seventyfive year pentameter

The warmth of the sun as it nears its abode
Prompts the waxing metier to unleash its ode

I can think of other things unleasing a load.

HALLEY’S HAIKU

The comet returns
In glowing apparition:
A cosmic hello

Christ wept.

When he saw a comet?

At your sonnet about the comet, and haiku of you.

Comets in all their glory cannot be described in words.  They must simply be appreciated.

HALLEYS PRAYER

by Luke Javan

......go for it Luke

Christ wept.

So would I - comets come back.

HALLEY’S PARTICIPLE
by Eddie88

Glowing