She was a sky full of stars
In a world of silver linings
Cassiopeia on her arm
Her soul intent on finding
Things worth being thankful for;
Good, wherever good might be
In galaxy-studded heights
Or shining, dappled sea
Yet look into her black-hole eyes
Examine her scar-crossed heart
Glitter-sprinkled stardust might
Shine brighter in the dark
Beset by tumbling nebulae
Her orbit ‘came unpathed
A new trajectory seemed set
For charts as yet ungraphed
Under heaven, nothing could
Prepare our girl for challenge faced
Her universe turned upside down
Destroyed beneath Orion’s gaze
Near five years, in van Gogh world
Were offered the best impression
The chance to twinkle, sparkle – lost
In the nova of depression
No more blinded, moon-dewed eyes
Like sleeping satellites
Her life now gouged wide open
As though by errant meteorite
Brought down to earth: obliterated
Broken. Torn. Undone.
Like Icarus in Jazz she chose
To fly into the sun
Perhaps the burning tempered her
Perhaps it will, with time
Her empty hands, beset with dross
Once more, must learn to shine.
The Well Tempered Bards 
the illustration is cool
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Ohh thank you! She’s my little dude who I like to draw, who really belongs to my other blog, but she comes over here every now and again, and she fit with this poem really nicely.
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jeezuz woman you’re so damn good!
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It took two and a half hours napping and hiding to get to this point. Thank you so much 🙂 ❤
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Dang. Yup. You’re good.
Big hugs,my friend.
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Thank you. And thank you *sigh* I’m glad you’re here 🙂 ❤
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Very nice, Ms. Lizzi! I hope beautiful star dust shines bright on you! 🙂
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Thank you sweet-bee 🙂 I hope so, soon enough 🙂
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Please fly into the sun. The sun is warm and always there, even if the clouds block her.
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Warm is good. Clouds less so, but it’s where I’m aiming 🙂 ❤
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Wonderful, Lizzi. Writing and sharing wonderful poems like this will help get you back in the proper trajectory, where the world is in balance and so are you. ❤ >>>****))))
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Thank you. I do hope so – it helped a lot to write this and to be able to focus on creating something beautiful out of a tricky challenge 🙂
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You never fail to impress and entertain…
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Why thank you, Milady 🙂
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Balm to my soul. Thank you.
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I’m glad you liked it, Sam, thank you 🙂
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No need to thank me, Lizzi. Your writing always seems to speak to me, though not always in the same way. I hope you always remember that the words you share touch people in ways you may never know. ❤
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Well, I do thank you, because (especially with poetry) there seems to be a significantly smaller number of people who respond to it with a comment, and so the comments which are left for me are accordingly more precious. It’s a beautiful thing to think that I might touch people’s hearts with words, but it’s so much more lovely to hear that in feedback from them….it’s amazing. 🙂
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That’s was amazing, beautiful, sad, and hopeful all rolled into one. 🙂
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Thank you so much, Cindy! I think that’s very much where I was at when I wrote it 🙂
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[…] prompt for today was a palinode, where we retract a statement made in an earlier poem (I chose She was a Sky full of Stars). I decided to retract two statements – 1) that Icarus tried to fly, and 2) that there was […]
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