sheet that is the western sky
just after dusk
hosts a luminous orb
giant among tiny pebbles of light
pulling our vision
upward.
drawn into the glowing brilliance,
necks bend to lock in gazes --
it is no plane flying low
or landing
-- a celestial body blazes
in the expanse of constellations,
all in one distant place.
radiance awakens
a momentary yearning
to fly, senses waking,
fear eroding
we swim through speckled sea
of space and ice and flames --
the still array, the obscurity.
venus, at its brightest,
comes closer now
to earth these days and nights.
venus, shines mightily
while on this third planet from the sun,
seemingly safe
in the brown clay soil and water
we remain.
Copyright © 2013 Nan P.
[Written for The Sunday Whirl and posted over at Poets United. The words for today were: flames, yearn,
immeasurable, safe, inky, bend. waking, still, erode, clay, sheet, and pebble. They are all in there. I had started this poem last week and this week's words helped me finish it. Still in draft form, I may come back to this one. Enjoy your day!]
9 comments:
I enjoyed your almost meditative contemplation of Venus! Nicely wordled.
nice...the universe is a beautiful place....i have oft been engrossed with the heavens...it makes me feel so small and so large at the same time...
Beautiful piece...yet there seems to be a feeling of sadness?
Beautiful and haunting!
Venus so bright and beautiful, what a disappointment to find that she is so hostile and doesn't welcome lovers...and yet she still beckons.
Such a beautiful poem. I especially loved "we swim through speckled sea
of space and ice and flames" -- gorgeous.
You have captured beautifully that deep longing many of us have to travel through that speckled sea of night sky. Really like this one and your elegant grasp of that wishing dream.
Elizabeth
A lovely tribute to the night sky and her bright star Venus. I liked "seemingly safe."
Hauntingly beautiful!
erosion
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