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Today
our theme is The Night Sky. So get ready to be star struck. It’s amazing to be
in sync with the stars that you know. We will wait for your starry / dark words.
What
about a stormy night sky?
In
pollution free places the night sky makes it easier to connect with its vastness
and infinity and makes you aware of the bigger picture. What do you say?
How
is the night sky seen through light pollution? What is your experience?
You
might also want to write about our moon or any other moon of any planet so that they don’t feel left out.
Ekphrastic
poetry would be quite interesting too. So if you wish you might write on one of
the paintings from the following list or any other of your own choice :
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| Flight Into Egypt by Adam Elsheimer (1609) |
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| The Meteor of 1860 by Frederic Edwin Church |
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| Starry Night Over the Rhone by Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Rainy Midnight by Childe Hassam (Wikimedia Commons) |
Nightpiece
By
James Joyce
Gaunt in gloom,
The pale stars their torches,
Enshrouded, wave.
Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint
illume,
Arches on soaring arches,
Night's sindark nave
.
Seraphim,
The lost hosts awaken
To service till
In moonless gloom each lapses muted, dim,
Raised when she has and shaken
Her thurible.
And long and loud,
To night's nave upsoaring,
A starknell tolls
As the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud,
Voidward from the adoring
Waste of souls.
The
lamp Once Out
By
Natsume Soseki
The lamp once out
Cool stars enter
The window frame.
Please link one poem that is your response to the material of this prompt. When you link your poem please visit other links in the spirit of the community
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