Step Into Starlight Poem by Michael Burch

Step Into Starlight

Rating: 5.0


Step into starlight,
lovely and wild,
lonely and longing,
a woman, a child...

Throw back drawn curtains,
enter the night,
dream of his kiss
as a comet ignites...

Then fall to your knees
in a wind-fumbled cloud
and shudder to hear
oak hocks groaning aloud.

Flee down the dark path
to where the snaking vine bends
and withers and writhes
as winter descends...

And learn that each season
ends one vanished day,
that each pregnant moon holds
no spent tides in her sway...

For, as suns seek horizons,
boys fall, men decline.
As the grape sags with longing,
remember—the wine!

Originally published by The Lyric

Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: love
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ratnakar Mandlik 30 July 2019

" And learn that each season ends one vanished day. that each pregnant moon holds no spent tides in her sway" . Fantastic write with equally fantastic flight of imagery.10 points.

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Michael R. Burch 30 July 2019

Thanks, I'm glad you like the poem.

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