Star-Kissed...

Star-Kissed...

I've looked up at the night sky ever-after,

That fateful day in Summer school,

Betwixt second and third;

My favorite teacher rolled out a cart,

Mrs. Olsen's little black-and-white screen,

The one the Eagle landed on,

Two-hundred and sixty-five thousand,
Miles over our heads.

Look up and see the stars.

Star Trek entered my life at ten years old,

Logically-speaking,

It's long been one of my joys,

So \\//_ .

Dream and dream of the stars.

Fireflies and lightning bugs,

They remind me of Summer stars,

I miss them so.

Catch the stars and put them in a jar of grass.

High school brought astronomy class,

Class not club,

Touring the University of Wisconsin telescope,

There in Madison,

We spied on the nebula in Orion's belt.

Cold bright stars so far so far so far away.

At eighteen,

I was playing with sparks,

An electronics technician in New Mexico,

All those science texts good for something;

There was a rural park there,

In the darkest of the Lower Forty-Eight.

There was always promise of stars at night.

Rick and his six-year-old daughter Lisa,

Out in a State park in the desert,

Watching the Milky Way glow,

Lisa would catch a satellite for us,

Every time.

Faint stars at the edge of vision fleeting circling above us.

We debated how to power space craft,

Impractically in practical terms,

There with the telescope taking turns.

An eye to the stars has company all 'round the world.

Saw a UFO zig-zagging over Temecula,

A week after we moved here,

Horizon-to-horizon,

Purple and blue glow flitterbug,

Were you a visitor from the stars?

There must be something kinder out in all that glorious infinity.

Star-Kissed,
Look up and see the stars,
Dream and dream of the stars,
Catch the stars and put them in a jar of grass,
Cold bright stars so far so far so far away,
There was always promise of stars at night,
Faint stars at the edge of vision fleeting circling above us,
An eye to the stars has company all 'round the world,

There must be something kinder out in all that glorious infinity.

AquarianM

By: Daniel A. Stafford

(C) 08/29/2017