Collaborative Poetry

Anatomy of Starlight

Stand

  Look
Look
     Look
Wait Look Look Wait Wait Wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Wonder

 Discover

   Smile
                  Smile
                                    Smile
                                            Smile

                                      Confusion
                                    Question
                            Wonder
              Wonder
   Wonder


Stand
                   

                                 

Unfinished sentences

Funny how many thoughts we forget we ever had.
How many ideas, wishes, regrets.
How many wisps of poetry get set aside for being too fragile.
The shells you toss back to the sand for being imperfect.
Stars taken out of our eyes and given back to the sky
We make our skin forget, remember that our voice is alone
No echoes, no whispers.
Smiles like clouds hiding the sky

Take my home off someone's shoulders
Place it somewhere far away

And just repeating

This is good.

Lineate

And we learn to live on the surface

Not the deep blue we drowned in
The sky, the waves, the tides

Not the everlasting green we became
The tinted stories and possible histories

Not our trees and rocks and mountains

Smiles like clouds holding back the blue

Hold your breath

It's the only way to breathe

Hum

On we go 'til tomorrow fades
The music lights and our shadows bade
Goodbye, my lovely
So hasty, child
How difficult you are to save

Respond in me and give no more
For troubles rise and wishes soar
In patterns undeserved, not ours
Belongings end in knots and doors

Trace the stories on the wall
The flowers long since left to fall
In faded wings and ghosts of height
Unfettered dreams and gentle flight