#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo 2024, Day 30
Wild stars in my grasp
Glitter fading to gravel
Escape from my palms
For constellations denied
To rewrite my destiny
© Aneesha Shewani
https://www.bluepenstrokes.comFate
Tag: Stars
Starry Visions
#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo Day 22
I sieved the stars
Through my fingers
They fell on the ground
Now, sparkling dust!
The mist from my eyes
Mingled in the glass
The shimmer flowed
Into oceans and seas
Luminescence washed
Along a silver beach,
I picked up the shards
Of the broken stars.
One with the sand
By the shores, I stood
Crystal dreams in my hand
Clutched to my bosom.
Roaring skies demanded
The glitter be returned
For they carried visions,
Of a thousand Earths!
Poetry inspired by the book cover of Lord Dunsany. The Book of Wonder. London: William Heinemann, 1912 — Source.
Turning Time
#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo Day 7
Delicate cotton whispers
Caressing my lonely soul
With promises unspoken;
I sink deeper into slumber
Where my dreams are of
The stars, moon, and you.
If the Earth spins backwards
And Time turns anti-clockwise
Would you still wait for me
At the other side of midnight
Under the shooting stars
And the lonesome skies?
Poetry inspired by the book cover of Max Wolf. Die Milchstrasse. Leipzig : Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1908 — Source.
Night
Consume me whole
Like the ocean gulps down
That flamboyant orb
Easing its pain
The lavish burn from within
Letting it settle
Amongst corals and pearls
In a soothing embrace
The ashes submerge
Then slowly emerge
In a million starlights
Flickering silica spreads
Across a sleeping world
Stones
I tore the sky apart
To capture the stars
In my calloused palms
They lost their shimmer
Lay in silence
Without a glimmer
No joy, no shine, no sparks
Far away from home
In a place so forlorn,
Against their will
Without a wish
Even stars became stones
Blue Pen Strokes 
