wish not upon the ghosts of stars
they know nought,
and burned away their souls
a million years ago.
put not your faith in heavens far
they simply caught
the eyes of sages old
a million years ago.
we cannot know the ways of ancient stars
nor of desperate heavens if they be
as in their simple death throes we regard
the past and not vain futures that we seek.
in the black between the lights
that distant shine on our desires
are darkened chasms hid from night
where stars once burned in golden fires
yet they are but ash from scattered flames
which on eternal winds have strayed
and this detritus has us stained
for from such dead stars are we made.
an earthborn hunter
placed by gods among the stars
stalks the clearest nights
what cares the moon
for the hopeful songs
of her struck lovers?
bereft of breath
and cold is she,
or the stars
for forlorn wishes?
such entreaties
are but moments lost
among untold
eternities.
betray not the stars
for in the silent darkness
they are our counsel
the gods leave no marks
but that which we paint
across the night’s infinity
thus their conception
from us within
has faith breeding crudulity
where to flies my evening star
she is the very muse to me
I know not her constellation
nor how is set her galaxy
but above all heaven’s host
her light sings in poetry
celestial and beauty boasts
that jewel of twilight’s rosary.
I let the stars speak to me
not in cryptic platitudes
nor trite generality
but as the forebears
who in days before time
had set us on our journey
with such shining expectation,
And in these clearest skies
silent as eternity
in unheard songs
of such sweet clarity
they sometimes scold
and oft direct my failings
but mostly they just weep.
dare not deny them
it is told our fates lie there
waiting in the void
we herald stars from earthbound hearts
and under them does all life play
to guide its ways by silent charts
fixed a million years away.
whether to lovers or the lost
their glow reflect all man’s desires
imbued by them as heaven’s host
celestial unending fires.
the blighters rock 