Friday, March 31, 2023

Spacey Poems

 A billion years spent circling emptiness, 

the milky way spins

through the pathless dark.


Everyonce in the universes’ lifetime

she will encounter an old memory

and sucked into it, will be lost

in its depthless black hole. 

 

*****

‘The Earth’s spinning core has slowed down’

said the headline.

She’s tired, i thought.

Whirling round and around 

like the Dervish

her centre, 

is waiting to fragment. 


When the outer outpaces the inner

she’ll gleefully shatter

into a million million bits of

spacedust. 


****

What did you do, Saturn,

for your moon, tied to you already

like a tin can on a dog’s tail, to

shatter, scatter

and yet

pulled by some charm (i will not understand)

choose you for their forever? 


****

What if the stars

are dustmotes

dancing outside a

distant alien window

that looks out into

a deep, green pond

where a frog sings

to his Fey Queen? 


because the Queen

has put him in a forever spell

and now even his lament, to her,

is a declaration of love?



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