Another Haiku Theme

I have to admit the guesses for the last set of haiku were great! Flit's was especially perceptive, for she figured out hedgehog for the fourth haiku stanza. I've always loved hedgehogs, though I cannot tell you why. They seem a bit like Piglet (of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories), cute and timid and easily spooked, and that brings out the maternal in me.

Here are a few more, all based on a single theme:

Golden, flame-throwing

Hot enough to fuel each

Summer afternoon

Mystic, calm, remote

Brilliant in a darkened sky

Behind passing clouds

Softened by the winds

Swirling over all its lands

Mammoth in its space

Like its "son" next door

Swirls of stormy clouds, but more--

Asteroids in rings

I assume by the end of the selection the clues will help you through them all. I should, perhaps, make the stanzas more difficult, but I don't want them to go unguessed! (Is that so wrong?)

Anyway, tell me what you think each one is. Post a message to me, and write one of your own haiku on the theme! I'd love to read them!