Celestial
Under starry skies or starry lights in the planetarium, celestial weddings locate us in the cosmos. These poems are all a little galactic.
8 poems
Epiphanyby Sophie Strand, contemporary“My heart was made to be split open, like the milkweed pod, and scattered”
How long we were fool'dby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“We have voided all but our own freedom, all but our own joy”
I carry your heartby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“This is the wonder that is keeping the stars apart.”
Ideas of right and wrongby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“Let the beauty we love be what we do”
Love from NGC7318by Tanerelle, contemporary“You make me feel like each of the five galaxies swirling in Stephan's Quintet”
Marriage Morningby Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 ~ 1892“This is the golden morning of love, and you are his morning star”
Song of Wandering Aengusby W.B. Yeats, 1865 ~ 1939“We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”- The Beauty we loveby Rumi, 1207 ~ 1273“The moment I heard my first love story I went looking for you”