Star Didactic Poems

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak...

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changing
    shifting
perspecive
    shading
reflective
   impulsive
spots
   &slahes
star
sphere
   spires
&
   broken lines

...

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this is a form based on John Banister Tabb,(the Virginia born )poet's The Evolution
I have labelled this imagist form 'a tabb' in his honour.

EVOLUTION
by: John...

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 high on life
the tippy top
a star
aglow
Dayspring
of everything
a candle
lit
timeless
and
perpetual

the earth
received
HIS
great worth
placed
in
a mother’s embrace
a babe

how dare
we
lick our fingers
and
extinguish 
eyes so bright
as if
we alone
could
create a star
of
our own

^
<...

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Fear, it's like a shadow in our hearts,
A feeling that can make us fall apart.
It's when we're scared of something near or far,
But we can...

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I
The universe has no center; even if it did, it would be similar to going in circles around the equator
II
But the equator is earth-bound; even...

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I
I was trying to imagine a sky at night with never a star, or satellite. It's almost impossible - and to get used to dark...

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May I have your attention please?
I'm not afraid (I'm not afraid)
To Lie (to Lie)
Everybody (everybody)
Come take my Eye (come take my Eye)
We'll walk through Eternity...

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Out of the dark,a glimmer,
    Then a light:
Out of the sky,the mornng star,
    Then a new sight;
Out of the...

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On dry 
desolate sands,
your wet footprints
eagerly follow your star,

for you 
have nowhere 
to go if you continue 
staying where you are!...

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they do, they have this distance from the star,
from there they know, the weather, is habitable
And they gaze upon the root/ the system

You stupid poetry...

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he stores his grapes
and warehouses his
wine
he grapples with men
and has concubines
his mighty hands
grasps these men
his strength so strong
it comes from within
might he fight
and stand jis...

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Created in the image of Òrisa and Olorun eleda
Visage brighter than Moremi's memories. 
Gifted the body of a voluptuous goddess,
For fear, Mortal men trembled at...

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You watched the eagles
Reach for the stars.
They had scars
From duels
Against all odds
And winning made them bubble gods.

You were a carmel
Ridden by an Arab in you.
Your...

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Gone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would...

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