“All the loneliness, All the loneliness,
A broken Maraca of Stars…”Bill Shively (an American Writer & Poet)
The stars have been singing to me
Lately
Yet they have not been singing the blues
Or a sad lament
Or even sappy romantic ballads
from the past
The stars have been singing me the truth
That was once mine in childhood
A song of hope
Humbled in their radiant presence
I feel small and insignificant
Lost for a moment
I take a deep breath
And find myself
Expanding
Reaching into the vastness
I find that I am a part of this
A part of the stars
A part of this magnificent universe
And as separate as each star appears
They are all held together by the night sky
And even when dawn appears
And for a moment
The stars seem gone
I remember the Milky Way
The breast of Mother Earth
And I am nourished
By the thought that I am not alone
But just one piece of the puzzle
The mystery unfolding
One atom
One nucleus
In a vast and wondrous
Universe
Pattra Burnetto Monroe ~ October 2009
2 comments:
This post truly resonates with me. Here is my own expression of that wondrous sense of being part of this Uni-Verse.
http://allpoetry.com/poem/3035782-I--reposted--by-MyrddinEmrys
Thank you for reading and commenting on my poem,Light Years. I enjoyed your poem also. And I truly love word plays. Uni-verse brings a big smile to my face. Thank you for being you and sharing your richness of words with me. Sincerely, p
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