"Step Into Starlight" is a beautiful realistic love poem, depicting a woman who perhaps is pregnant and anxious about bringing a child into a trouble world. Yet, is positive enough to remind herself that while a grape sags sometimes with its burden, it also the source of life's great wine. Well done, Mike. Poetry doesn't come much better than this!
That poem for your sister... is wonderful, I wish I could write something like that
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"Step Into Starlight" is a beautiful realistic love poem, depicting a woman who perhaps is pregnant and anxious about bringing a child into a trouble world. Yet, is positive enough to remind herself that while a grape sags sometimes with its burden, it also the source of life's great wine. Well done, Mike. Poetry doesn't come much better than this!
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 its sway . . .
For, as suns seek horizons—
boys fall, men decline.
As the grape sags with its burden,
remember—the wine!