A bright pin pierces Between blue cloth, white brush-strokes, Of a matte painting.
Tag: stars
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Frost makes rainbows
Of the few, the bright — stars, strewn
In a full moon sky -
One bright pin pierces
Blue cloth, between white brush-strokes
Of a matte painting -
Better not to smell,
On this short, starry night —
The scent of wood-smoke -
crickets and frogs shake
night's cloak — a million jewels — clasped
with a crescent moon -
The future is a sheet of writhing light.
An image wider than the eye can grasp,
Stretched sky to sky and onwards beyond sight.
An orbit’s edge, in circuits fine and vast.Upon a thumbnail, we write a chip:
A million words, alive in lightning’s strife.
A million Earths in this new sky could fit.
A pin-prick, puncture more than that mere life.Dream of a question, and the answer’s there,
Inside the mind that drinks Apollo dry.
Ask — search a thousand lives — and find despair,
Still baffled at the gate you entered by.So leave? And from the shadowed edge, look up.
An ocean asks you why you fled the cup. -
It is the fate of paladins to fall —
Or else to stumble on, far from the Light,
Left lonely when their cause demanded all
And friends retreated for another fight.Having no other beacons, they must shine
In lands left black and trackless — stars of hope
That leave behind belief in Dawn’s pink line
When they are snuffed beneath Night’s cloudy cloak.The wards they leave are hot and iron-hard,
But even these are ashes in the end:
Strewn through dead fields by winds that leave stone scarred;
Consumed by rising depths that reap and rend.When echoes end, the tallest walls are felled,
But grass sprouts green where Light’s last stands were held.
Jenkins Rising 