Falling through the sky, in scintillation, refracted starlight strikes a random eye. Transiting in timeless propagation, an instant, just, to cast its beauty by. Anon, it flew galactic arms to die, down ancient paths of stasis from afar, imperfect, insubstantial as a sigh, yet perfect in the wonder that we are, a twinkle in our eye, allowed to touch a star. © 2006 W.D.Neighbors |
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Showing posts with label Nature poetry. Show all posts
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12/26/2006
To Touch a Star
7/19/2005
Rivers of Time
Dinosaurs waiting for stone to erode,
their skeletons covered, uncovered again;
iron that's forgotten the blood where it flowed
and phosphorous leached from a primitive brain;
Delicate sabers of soft-stepping cats
enshrouded in shimmering oceans of sand;
Strata of relative sediment that's
concealing the bones of the earliest man.
Visible traces of numerous beasts;
the sum of Earth's creatures forever enshrined.
Signs of their passing won't slow in the least
the rivers and runnels of ongoing time.
their skeletons covered, uncovered again;
iron that's forgotten the blood where it flowed
and phosphorous leached from a primitive brain;
Delicate sabers of soft-stepping cats
enshrouded in shimmering oceans of sand;
Strata of relative sediment that's
concealing the bones of the earliest man.
Visible traces of numerous beasts;
the sum of Earth's creatures forever enshrined.
Signs of their passing won't slow in the least
the rivers and runnels of ongoing time.
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