Category: The Constellation Series
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Poetry, The Constellation Series
Constellation Chronicles

I have seen The stars, And all the stories You have embroidered In their arms. I have seen the sirens Hanging on the tips Of the moon, Singing a bewitching melody, For the sailors Roaming the skies. Those Who drink rum And those Chasing Dragons With fiery breath That pursue Falling stars To the ends […]

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Poetry, The Constellation Series
Cassiopeia ~ the vain queen

CASSIOPEIA ~ the vain queen They cut my features From the cosmic brilliance, Of every beautiful thing The world had produced. The blood gushing around my body In whorls of white, Like the salted tips of Every ocean wave Pulled towards the night sky. Will they tell you the stories Written by winners and stars […]

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Poetry, The Constellation Series
Andromeda ~ the maiden of sorrow

ANDROMEDA ~ the maiden of sorrow They must have examined The light bouncing off Teardrops, Before they placed me In the sky. That tiny glimmer Of white light In a single drop That gleams gold and silver. A single drop Of molten stardust Extricated from mortal bodies So unlike The sea spray From the angry […]

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Poetry, The Constellation Series
Pavo ~ the peacock

PAVO ~ the peacock I let my light, leak out of my veins Translucent and silver. I let it, dance around the cosmos Skating amongst the planets And all the other rocks and dust, Spreading out like Long fingers Splayed across the universe In an eternal hold. I let it drip slowly Leaving streaks of […]

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Poetry, The Constellation Series
Eridanus ~ the river

They dusted the stars on my eyelids, And coated my skin in the glowing embers of the sky The drew upon my body, A thousand stories And once  they had painted my limbs, With the colors of the night and the shooting stars, That seeped deep below the skin Dying my veins and arteries Silver, […]

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Poetry, The Constellation Series
on suns, skies and constellations

The road to the stars: THE CONSTELLATION SERIES When I drew the roads to my heartAnd marked the paths,With the shining constellationsπροσπαθούν να βρουν πυξίδα(Trying to find Pyxis) I found that you,Had already made yourself at homeEven though, I had barred my bonesAnd torn all muscled pathwaysTo stop you from reaching it. When my breathFelt […]