Life of a Star

Flying

through an endless universe

past galaxies without end

I gaze on in wonder

as all around me

stars suffer

the agonies

of life and death

In explosive bursts of colour
they shower the heavens
with the glorious memory

of their existence

 

Their beauty displayed

in brilliance

across the great expanse

of endless space

 

I fly alone

through their eternal dance
a speck of dust

in an endless sea of creation

waiting for an end

that will never come

Entrapped

in eternity's embrace
I float aimlessly
a lost soul

amongst a billion stars

Reviews

[Dayran]

I came across a suggestion someplace that the milky way is the birth of new stars and is also the place for stars to be reborn after their sojourn across time and space. The quality of milk draws us to the perception of a woman who may also be so recycling souls with the nourishment from her own body.

Viewed that way your journey appears to me something more than a mere a dream relation. It is the stuff of our lives brought to us by a woman.

I thought the last stanza may read better as ' eternity's embrace.'

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you and yes your right the last line should be that. That's an interesting way to look at it, though not where I was when I wrote it :)

[Overrated-World]

Touching. Your work always paints me a picture. so great.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you :)

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an interesting piece, carolann. it's asthough you have inverted personification and given a star consciousness. and i get a hint that perhaps people are stars too... (we are supposed to share chemistry, after all)

nice job

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you :)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

A lovely etherial piece once again. The theme of nbeing lost and searching continues and I hope you end the drought as it does happen. I know from the experience I have gone through and my new partner. Now we have found one another it was worth the wait and the trials we went through.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you :) Its good that you have found love.

[Ahmad Cox]

I can feel it. We all share a piece of the universe and the stars inside of us. We are all mirrors of God and spirit being played out in the physical realm and we all contain all the knowledge and power we will ever need because we all share that galactic memory of the stars and of the heavens.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you I'm glad it spoke to you

[Aly]

beautiful.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you Aly :)

[Aly]

welcome :)

[kelvin]

Galaxies and dust lost souls a alien amongst is on traveling searching seeing some come and others go sky lit up with colors and sparkles but yet you travel alone. as always keep writing fellow writer this takes you on a journey good description in this read to.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you glad you enjoyed the journey :)

[kelvin]

You're very welcome

[Jordan's Back]

I fly alone
through their eternal dance
a speck of dust
in an endless sea of creation
waiting for an end
that will never come

a lost soul, searching amongst the depths of infinity to acquire that one thing they call home, only to experience its Shattering conclusion. So it is with a person searching for themselves. your true self will never be revealed until your journey's end. then all will be made known by the Explosive forces of what truly was. An Excellent write.

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you, you have awesome Insight and depth of understanding

[Clockwork]

This is a marvelous trip through all those fields of stars. You have taken us where the Hubble Telescope can only gaze in envy. I liked how you focused on the life cycle of stars and the multitude of colors they produce.

Good stuff here:

In explosive bursts of colour
they shower the heavens
with the glorious memory

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you I'm glad you liked it :)

[Clockwork]

You're welcome!

:-)

[Dr. Wood ?]

absolutely fabulous.......The times I have spent as a lad staring up int the canopy of statrs and dreaming such a journey...GREAT!

[Carolann Dowsett]

Thank you glad you enjoyed :)