Thursday, 23 April 2015

Mark Scrivener Poetry Blog No 20 Starsong


STARSONG



It is widely considered proven in the scientific community that all but the lightest elements, including the carbon and other elements in our bodies, were born in the hearts of stars. I wished to suggest in this poem that we look at this in a broader way and realise that we ourselves are the wonderful "aliens", the star children, who travel with our world and the sun through the galaxy.





Pleiades





         
                   STARSONG


We are
star
children.
Our bodies born of the breath of suns,
our souls move in immensity.

Yet we
forget so easily
we're bathed in stellar light;
given vision
beyond terrestrial dimension.

For we have lost humility.

We are
star
children.
Yet we
forget so easily
we're of illimitable universe:
we're granted power to be.

Our sun
harmonizes with the round of stars.
The planets ring our journeying.
We feed on trapped sunbeams,
the moon moves our deep seas.

Yet we
forget so easily
a gratefulness for conscious being
and, blind in pettiness,
squabble over nothings.

We are, we belong.
We are star breath, star song.

Yet we
forget so easily.

We are
star children
and we all spiral with the stars through vastness.

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