The Sight of Stars

kim881's avatarwriting in north norfolk

ancient memories
light up the night sky
with a shimmer of
astral dust
yesterday’s magic
scintillates

 astrology and mysticism
a twinkling aura
crowns the moon drunk
with cosmic wine
and weightlessness

motionless in freefall
earth is an afterthought

a blue yo-yo suspended
in the echo chamber
of space
while the universal orchestra
plays a silent requiem

Kim M. Russell, 2017

Image result for van gogh starsStarry Night Over the Rhône, 1888, by Vincent van Gogh, image found on Wikipedia

My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar: the Acrostic

Our host for today is Frank and the form is the acrostic, whereby we take a word or phrase and use each letter as the first letter of each line in the poem, with the word or phrase reading vertically down the left side of the poem…

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  1. “astrology and mysticism
    a twinkling aura
    crowns the moon drunk
    with cosmic wine
    and weightlessness

    motionless in freefall
    earth is an afterthought”

    So beautiful 😄

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