As their twinkle
(starshine)
takes time travel from the past
and light years
(90 billion)
to arrive across a void so vast
altho' we've been to the Moon
(and back)
Venus Jupiter and Mars
how can our future lie
not here and now on Earth
but in the planets and the stars?
Shine in, shine in;Star shine;
Good morning world;
I love you so;
At night or day, star shine;
Forever glowing, forever mine star shine;
ooh, you keep me just wondering all the time;
Like a birdy flying in the skies;
through the open skies
At a steady pace
now I wonder when will the moon let you show;
All your sparkling satellites behind a darken space;
ooh, star shine I just wanna let you know;
Shine in, shine in;
Starshine
Forever glowing, forever mine star shine;
ooh, you keep me just wondering all the time;
Like a birdy flying in the skies;
Starshine;
2/24/70
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 1970©
You used to call me Starshine
I used to wonder why.
I used to call you Moonshine, now I
See the reason I
Got so drunk off words you spoke I
nearly went blind.
Now and then see you pretend
through misty foggy eyes
That time the wind and us the dust
swept up away and off.
Nothing left where nothing was
swept up away and off.
(you know)
I could never lie when I was
staring at your curls.
Cashing in those empty bottles
just to buy you pearls.
I drank 'em first but there's no thirst
quite like the one you left me with.
Always parched, and never quenched until
I find you in a fifth.
I used to call you Moonshine
Now you're whiskey, bourbon, rye.
You used to call me Starshine
and I still wonder why.
Starshine and silhouettes
Happiness was mine
as our shadows danced under the moon
Silhouettes of starshine's glimmer
as you glide across the room
Shadows escaping each other
as our silhouettes they evanesced
Mesmerized by your celestial spectacle,
I had to catch my breath
Intrinsic energy and emotions
accelerating fusion all through the night
My shadow danced in time with your silhouette
and I knew that you were mine.
John Derek Hamilton
May 01,2016
Spirited and wise
Hard to find, easy to spot
Starshine in the eyes
Listen to what your heart says
Long before your mind accepts
by the starshine i see ? ?
a truer version of me
as the darkness pervades
the fear and trouble escapes
my soul vaults far up into the skies
as i soar free with newly opened eyes
when i am a truer version of me
only then am i free
Good Morning, Starshine
“Good morning, Starshine,” each dawn he would greet
As from feather pillows our eyes would meet
Perhaps you can imagine my surprise
When he was gone when I opened my eyes
Did he forget our anniversary?
Just one year had passed since he’d married me
But as my eyes opened wider that day
I found rose petals upon the bed lay
He’d heard me rising, but he called, “Get back in!”
Bacon’s scent from the kitchen wafted in
In he entered with breakfast on a tray
He retrieved the remote and then pressed “play”
I started to eat, beside me he lay
To watch a film of our wedding day
When I picked up the tea cup, what a shock
There sat a ring with a large diamond rock
Gems were too costly when we got engaged
But seeing this now made my passions rage
Gently my husband always embraced me
But never more than on our first anniversary
* For Francine’s “Good Morning” contest
empty twigs with new bud ends
welcome the warmth of risen sap
filling with hope of Spring and leaves
hints of green in ice burnt lawn as
sudden snow bells wave in hints of breeze
rhodies' leaves are open to the warming day
a shiver sway of dripping green
against the patient cedar
pointing into a well lit grey white sky
Winter's claws are nightly clutching deep
Holding on in grimly sour
frustration
Someday soon the rushing tide of Spring
will sweep away ache of morning risings
Dancing in the greens of life reborning
Bathed in your soft starlight warm
Dissolving troubles the tension shorn
Instill my mind with lucid dreams
Elevate my soul on silvered beams
Removing discord from atop my shoulders
In temperate love as night grows colder
On wind burned face your thoughts caress
Removing deep imbued duress
Steeping away the anguishing past
A bonding anew in the fire is cast
A gift living essence before you I raise
This beauty adorning in heavenly praise
Qualms are sluiced on showers illume
Dispirited man in your hands impugn
Transfusion of hope from skyline of night
Cleansed and reborn in your basin of light
Angst of the morrow dissolves in your song
Instilled of your spirit to rise a new dawn.
Starshine in Parme`s Eye`s
Starshine in Parme`s Eye`s
For my Friend Parme
GOD own`s us both, both you and I.
All the stars that shine;
(in Parme`s eye`s).
And all the grains of sand and time.
Remember that HE sent HIS SON.
For all of us HE died.
He that made Golgotha,
created you and all of us.
Life is good to me,
HIS NAME is JESUS
Charles Robert Hice
Copyright ©2006 Charles Hice
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