Star Poetry

Slivered souls - each half of the whole;

Cosmic sky tessellating

Above the desert dust glittering -

Wave after wave.

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Star Power

Slender as small bones, the shard of light -

one pinprick in an otherwise black night sky.

And she knew, falling or not, tonight was a night for a wish...

one slight plea to hold back the oblivion

of a world that was eternally spinning.

Fingers slid over dry lips,

a nervous habit of an otherwise calm-seeming girl.

Fingers shifted to ear lobes, massaging,

as eyes locked intensely

on the sliver of cosmic heaven.

A million wants and needs rolled to the front of her thoughts,

a typhoon in a silent and sulking evening.

She ignored the storm.

She already had the one thought she needed,

had it anchored fast behind her upwardly focused eyes.

And with one breath...

Out -

She let it fly.