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@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Love Poem For C-Wave
For you, I rename a certain star: C-Source,
perhaps in the vicinity of Chiron, the man-horse,
and appropriately endowed---like you, of course.
Loving you, I think of the stars' effulgent lights,
that warms their planets' days and illumine the nights.
Starward*Led
Where Love Becomes Its Own Constellation
The star imagery in this piece does several things at once:
• Renaming a star gives the beloved a place in the heavens.
• Effulgent lights evokes brilliance, warmth, and spiritual radiance.
• The warmth that “warms their planets’ days and illumine the nights” eluding that the other’s influence is both sustaining and guiding.
This for me is a classic poetic move in the PostPoems Universe: comparing love to celestial light, but the piece personalizes it by naming a specific star and tying it to a mythic constellation.
And I'm keeping my title up there above this comment.
Thanks for that excellent
Thanks for that excellent explication of the poem!
Starward-Led (in Chrismation, Januarius)