Best Starless Poems

Thinking of O, Ms. Jill Martin was in her solitude “Quietly…breathing”
That, she just waved her hand greeting April Lewis “Without Speaking”
I spied humorist Donald Meikle, writing a “Note to a Lady in Waiting”

Let’s party! exclaimed silent Sami Al-Khalili, but not “Only In Winter”
That’s a real...

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i walk alone
the echo of footsteps
tapping back
to the beat of rain
as it falls pooled
with my tears

no stars 
to catch my wishes
this darkened night
just flashes of light
beyond the hills
that tremble
with the roar
of thunder

i stop
at garden's edge
a lavender rose
beneath the bramble
struggles, petals closed
it hangs in the bleakness
as...

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Moon missing the stars tonight
                 Left alone in darkest night
             In the air that wears with fright
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I'm here tonight
to stand in the ache.
The ache of hollow,
the empty of the not 
simply empty; rather,
the empty of the
recently full.

The silent ache of
missingness, of quiet.
Before the ghosts have
risen, before the
memorial stones are 
set.  Before the cards arrive.
Before the flowers
are vased to wilt.

I'm here...

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To quell the anger of the earth's beating heart
Spiritually parched and bleeding torn, scars;
Yet still haunting visions of people apart
Rendering resplendent sights, skies with no stars.
The courageous lions roar hoping to mold
Opposites to magnetic attraction, bold;
Because they both become the same old pawns
Drawn in and...

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hope
misplaced,

dark day dawns
tick-tock,  tick-tock
date confirmed by lot

thirteenth day of twelfth month

revenge builds its own gallows
three-day night of anguished fasting
queen's hope rests upon her monarch's orb

Jews' annihilation - signed but not sealed



written July 22, 2016
for Kim Merryman's Etheree contest...

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O, starless night!
A night when clouds are not in sight,
And yet the stars give off no light.
O, starless night!

O, blackened trees!
The trees are blacker than the seas
That rage with sickness and disease.
O, blackened trees!

O, sullen muse!
When there is nothing left to lose,
We sing until we...

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I was reading Michelle MacDonald’s superb piece of art “Sea Shanty”
Secretly, under the haiku master Katherine Stella’s “Yum Yum Tree”
When smiling Carol Brown, invited me to her grand “Surprise Party”

The charming lady of the soup was no longer feeling bad or “Sideline”
After mending herself, thru...

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in the absence of stars
i am reminded
of my aloneness

as i stand 
on the edge 
of my dreams

it's in the silence
of these darkest nights
that i hear your whispers
falling softly around me

i curl myself
within the comfort
found within thoughts

as i drift
to sleep
once more 


(trying to get my muse...

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you look upon the sky and seen a starless sky. 
why does it feel so lonely within one room? 
why does everything have to end in some point?
the moon looks lonely, as you sit. 
you think to yourself. .
i am a moon in a starless...

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That night, vibrant Effie Blake told me “You Don’t Have To Be A Star”
To see the beauty of this world or meet Troy Nelson, of the “Dead Star”
Ahh!!! My voice need to be heard, that I wrote “To You, Mr. Apolinar” 
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I look to the stars when I am sad
I look and realize that life is just that
Life is a sad process of denial and greed…
I look into the depths of space and am amazed
The magic of even being here is staggering
The possibilities of me 
The...

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Stars, remote and wondrous, 
try to console another wretched soul...
not mine, that one which bore a tremendous loss;
and no song being sung by me would add to the tone!


My wine isn't as sweet as honey,
begone are those delightful nights of intimate embraces,
enhanced by wild and...

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darkness descends on
                             mountains, fireflies glitter, glow
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