…Planet Venus…

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Hesperos

A new moon and Venus in formal alignment

stark against a winter sky,

the still, frosty twilight enhances their brightness,

no moisture or wind blurs their bold symmetry.

As if by enchantment, suddenly they appear –

the pale yellow crescent, the white evening star

-emblems of the heavens as seen from afar,

reigning in splendour alone at this hour,

no other bodies mar their hemisphere. 

Heosphoros (Dawn Bringer)

Outshining other planets but never rising high,

glimpsed in the West at nightfall then reappears in the Eastern sky.

Seeming close though far away,

ephemeral yet eternal, it heralds the break of day.

A beacon to those who long for the dawn

Hail Venus!   Star of the morn!