Have you listened to the night sky
opening yourself wide
to let it echo through you?
Have you tasted the stars?
Opening yourself wide
have your eyes become mirrors?
Have you tasted the stars,
your veins glowing?
Have your eyes become mirrors
of infinite silences,
your veins glowing,
drunk with the darkness
of infinite silences?
Have you been pulled,
drunk with the darkness,
into luminous trajectories ?
Have you been pulled,
revisiting the returning
of luminous trajectories,
forever somewhere else?
Have you revisited the returning–
let it echo through you
forever as somewhere else?
have you listened to the night sky?
This is the first of two similar pantoums I composed for Merril’s dVerse echo theme. The art is from the archives.
As you may have noticed, I like the repetition and echoing in the pantoum form, and the way it circles back on itself. You may have also noticed I often write about the night sky, the stars, and the moon, often assisted by the Oracle. Merril and Jane, who are also acquainted with the Oracle, told me not to read their poems until I had composed my own, but I’m guessing stars appear in theirs somewhere too.
Of course stars echo in light!
K. 
Trifecta!
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Thanks Jade. I thought I replied to this, but WordPress is acting peculiar the past few days…
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Of course stars echo the light! Thank you for taking the time for this. It’s not as close as mine and Jane’s, but yes stars. But what is funny–is this morning I was thinking about how I hadn’t written a pantoum in a while, and I should write one soon. . .so there is that. 🙂
I like the questioning in this, and my poem does talk about the whys and ifs.
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Thanks Merrill. I have lots more ideas for this prompt, and the bits and pieces will probably show up somewhere later.
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I had the hardest time coming up with a prompt that hadn’t been used before–so I’m pleased you like this one.
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Yes, stars and night sky. As I hinted earlier, neither Merril nor I worked out a proper form, we just let fly and the poems ended up very similar. Maybe if we’d taken the time, the poems would have been pantoums too.
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Also amazing at you were writing are them at the same time.
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Curiouser and curiouser.
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The pantoum is a wonderful form to use for this prompt, and I enjoyed reading yours!
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Thanks! One of my favorite forms.
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I like the thought of the night sky echoing through us.
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Me too Frank, thanks!
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I do love how you go round and round in this echo… and the nightsky is a great inspiration
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Thanks Bjorn. Always.
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Beautiful Kerfe! 😊
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Thanks Jill.
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Excellent! This is like a synesthetic star-gazing.
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I like that description! Thanks Ken.
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🙂
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Wonderful! 🙂
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Thanks!
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