shooting stars
petals in mid-flight,
leaning toward dawn light~
small constellations trembling
Dodecatheons
"Wishes fly swiftly when shooting stars cross silent skies." The Poet
As if in flight, I heard no sound.
Speeding through the darkest surround.
Then came a spectacular light.
I heard no sound as if in flight.
It came streaming, a vibrant flame.
A spectacular light then came.
A shooting star, it was gleaming.
A vibrant flame, it came streaming.
Exploding in space, quite bazaar.
It was gleaming. A shooting star.
In the night sky, easy to trace.
Quite bazaar, exploding in space.
Now burned out. it had ceased to fly.
Easy to trace in the night sky.
Seen again, I really doubt.
It had ceased to fly, now burned out.
O, shooting star, I welcome you
'neath tattered hills and vulkum dunes
I pierce the sky, sweet butterfly, and I sing, on...through...
O, shooting star, please light the way,
I fear the promises of the coming days,
My bed is worn, my arms decayed
O, shooting star I Gayleyleye
The evening breeze that I foresee continues to empower me
I hear the voice, I spread its wings, 'til life and death depletes--
I gaze away, these seeds of change, and echoes loudly as though I'm gay
O, how freely, oh how freely, oh, freely, oh, how freely oh, how freely I hold..
O, shooting star, I welcome you
'neath tattered hills and vulkum dunes
I pierce the sky, sweet butterfly, and I sing, on...through...
O, shooting star, please light the way,
I fear the promises of the coming days,
My bed is worn, my arms decayed
O, shooting star I Gayleyleye
The evening breeze that I foresee continues to empower me
I hear the voice, I spread its wings, 'til life and death depletes--
I gaze away, these seeds of change, and echoes loudly as though I'm gay
O, how freely, oh how freely, oh, freely, oh, how freely oh, how freely I hold...
Although I felt alone, like a shooting star,
My light always showed from very far.
He is the Earth's stillest bodies of water,
So clear, so calm, he will never falter.
He beautifully reflects my streak of light,
He sees how I can be so warm and bright.
I see him for all of what he is truly:
A serene lake so deep, cool, and lovely.
I am the fire matching his passion,
He is the ocean mirroring my compassion.
He and I, although often physically apart,
Our souls inherently know every psychic art.
Although I felt all alone, faraway, for so long,
I suddenly descended to where I belong,
Like a falling star, he made a wish upon me,
I emerged anew, from his own sea of lonely
Half the moon sits aloft the Jovian star
Its other half away in green pastures far
She sat leaning ‘neath the peering lights
That ever pervade such provoking nights
Are they dim, or are they bright
Small in stature or stood upon dizzying heights
From where she sat it was hard to tell
Then suddenly one fell
She traced it by its silver tail
As it illumed the hanging clouds
Then streaked across the glooming dale
Revealing the wandering shrouds
It tumbled down and out of sight
In a spiraling trail of rainbow light
The day I die will be as sad as the day I was born
I will be a shooting star to the night sky
I will be nobody, nowhere and nothing
A fate seemingly better than dying to live
For I smile when I'm empty
I will smile when I'm happy
And smile the brightest when I know the end is near
- k.a.j
strawberry milk moon
dipped in dark chocolate sky
shooting star flies by
A SHOOTING STAR
In quietness of night,
a fired star waving goodbye;
turning off its light:-
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I met a streak across the night,
a blaze of breath, a flash of flight.
A shooting star with silver flare
descended near, through whispered air.
I asked, “You fall so fast and bright—
what secrets do you steal from night?”
It flickered once, then shaped a voice
as if my soul had been its choice.
"I carry wishes, hopes unspoken,
tokens of hearts that remain broken.
Each trail I burn, a soul’s demand—
a silent prayer not made by hand."
“Do you regret the paths you take,
so brief your flame, then you forsake
the sky, the stars, your cosmic kin—
for just one flash to spark within?”
It laughed—a sound like chiming glass—
"Regret is for the ones who pass
through time without a burst or flare.
I live in sparks, I scorch the air."
"You interview me as I fade,
but do you live the life you’ve made?
Or wait like dust in twilight’s seam,
hoping I’ll grant your dormant dream?"
I tried to speak, but it was gone,
a sizzle swept the dark to dawn.
Yet in my chest, a burning scar—
left by the words of that bold star.
A tombstone is my thought,
I made my tomb out of thoughts
I knitted my shroud from hundreds of ideas
And out of sadness I finished my coffin.
I buried myself in the sunrise
When no one was outside
Just me, a small and insignificant creature
I was cooling my feet in death.
I wandering with the shadow of the spirit, the moon
I then stopped at each star
I wanted to forget the earth
For no one wept at my death.
I absolutely twinned with the Universe
To invent a new star together
In which we do not put thoughts,
And I will lie forever in it.
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I involuntarily remembered the past
When I saw your face in stardust
And on the day when I was working a corner of a star
I decided to visit your land.
But moments had turned into hours
And the days turned into years,
And I had traveled thousands of years
When I got to see the earth again.
From above, from the sky full of stars
I sought to see your face again,
But because I didn't find you anymore
Out of grief, I threw myself into the sea.
Vast dome of night sky,
Spark slices through dark, fleeting—
Desert awash in light.
In silence, ancient secrets,
Shadows yield to the bright dance.
Tell you this again,
When you see
A shooting star,
Someone loves you,
Someone tells you
“Eat chocolates”
Offer jewelry,
Think of me, then,
Pineapple flavors,
Mango flavors,
On a distant island
There is happiness,
Tell you this again
When you see
A shooting star,
There’s someone who loves you.
Dites-vous ceci,
Quand vous voyez
Une étoile filante,
Quelqu’un vous aime,
Quelqu’un vous dit
Mangez des chocolats
Offrez des bijoux,
Pensez à moi, alors,
Parfum d’ananas,
Parfum de mangue,
Sur une ile lointaine
Il y a du bonheur,
Redites-vous ceci
Quand vous voyez
Une étoile filante,
Quelqu’un vous aime.
In the dark of night
I seen a light
Was it a Star from a far?
Or a Planet?
Or another sun?
And as I learned,
Could it be
When time begun?
You see they say
If you look to a
Certain way
Through the universe,
What you may
See is times course.
Or is it
A Rock, shooting across the sky,
To make a wish from?
As you watch it go by.
You look up and wonder
And close your eyes
And a dream comes true
No matter how many
Years go by.
D.S.
I wished for a horse. My whole childhood and more.
Comet is his name. Dream on and make a wish again.
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