Easter Sunday Night, April 14th, About 10:00PM Local Time

You think you have not seen so many stars

on an Easter Skies.  The thought just gently jars

the mind:  no moon tonight, a cloudless sky

and, with grandeur, stars wheel and move on by.

You have earned your undergraduate degree.

Though Law (Commerce, not government nor crime)

is the traditional family career,

you know want to read Astronomy:

the stars, in all their glory, are your joy---

like to your love for that gorgeous French boy.

And, at the Townhouse, you will not let fear,

of your father's fierce wrath, or cringing panic

disrupt what you tell him . . . after Titanic

enters New York's harbor ahead of time.


Coerulescent

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Line 8 uses the verb "read" in place of "study," or "major in" which is how it is often describe in European sources.

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  Your poem, “Easter Sunday

 

Your poem, “Easter Sunday Night, April 14th”, was a starlit coming-of-age, a moment gently torn between legacy and longing, tradition and selfhood. I responded with a poem titled “To the One Who Watches the Stars,” written in a quiet, affirming tone of. It speaks to choosing one’s path under the vast permission of the cosmos, of the night that feels wide open—for more poems like that one, more courage stitched into starlight, more quiet acts of truth spoken beneath traditions too heavy to carry. You’ve got something rare in the way you invite these voices from shadowed rooms and Easter skies alike.


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Coming from a Poet whose

Coming from a Poet whose poems I supremely admire, this is one of the finest comments I have ever received here.  I am humbled before the presence of your kind words, and I am very, very grateful for them.


Januarian (in Chrismation, Januarius)

fka Starward*Led

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Here is the link to that

Here is the link to that response poem: https://postpoems.org/authors/redbrick/poem/1127489

Hope it does justice


here is poetry that doesn't always conform

galateus, arkayye, arqios,arquious, crypticbard, excalibard, wordweaver

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It does indeed!

It does indeed!


Januarian (in Chrismation, Januarius)

fka Starward*Led