General Poetry posted January 4, 2017 Chapters:  ...13 14 -15- 18... 


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A chapter in the book Word Games

Stars

by estory

One by one
The stars appear
In the constellations
Across the skies

In the signs of the zodiac
Across the plane of the ecliptic,
The stars appear
One by one

Across the skies
Of stars in galaxies
Within constellations of stars
Across galaxies of constellations
Of stars in galaxies
Of stars across skies
Within galaxies in constellations
Of stars in galaxies
Across skies of stars
In galaxies within contellations
Of stars in galaxies
In constellations of stars

Novas, supernovas, pulsars, quasars
Moving away from us in Doppler shifts
That red shift the light as they move farther away from us

With all of their stars
In binary star systems
Within galaxies of clusters of stars
Across skies of constellations
Of clusters of star systems
In galaxies of stars
In binary star systems
Across galaxies of constellations
Of clusters of star systems
And star clusters of binary star systems




This is a poem that went through many rewrites. During its evolution, I sought to make it denser and denser, with repeating patterns of sound and images to create an effect of a star studded sky. It is a simple image, a simple piece of music, meant to be enjoyed as a piece of music. I write poetry from the premise 'poetry is the art of making music with language', in its most general definition. And I like to create new forms of making music with language sometimes, stretching beyond or reaching beyond the traditional forms of rhyme schemes in iambic pentameter. We live now in a world of computers and machines, like it or not, and this is a form that I think is relevant in this world, and captures the look and feel of it. estory
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