Night Stars
As I peer out through the blackened veil,
this night time cloth of light travails,
and who am I to see at all?
and what are stars that seem so small?
Cloudy wrestling swirling by,
sparkling diamonds far too high,
whirling clouds that hide the sky,
whilst cosmic ray beams try to spy.
Diamonds of the solar crown,
godly orbs that do not frown,
upon our small and mortal town,
whilst hiding under eiderdowns.
So what are these and who is there?
and why at night time do we stare?
at cosmic stars that will not share,
the solar truth: they would not dare!
Andrew Siddle/1st January 2004
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Written on January 01, 2004
Submitted by Andrew_siddle on June 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
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| Words | 128 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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