Star-gestured Wishes
A seed-at-zero, heaven-driven
from star-gestured wishes,
the light in your eyes shone with
the ripple-woven light of nebulae,
man-melting as it grew,
until our fair-formed love
became a never-to-be-broken vow.
I enjoyed writing Gone with the Tide in response to Laura Bloomsbury’s prompt for Poetics: love the words at dVerse, so I decided to give it another try. I leafed through my copy of Dylan Thomas poetry to find a new set of hyphenated words to use, this time balanced against the darker side of the first poem. The words I have used are seed-at-zero, heaven-driven, fair-formed, star-gestured, ripple-woven, man-melting, and never-to-be-broken, and I’m linking this to OpenLinkNight #241 at dVerse.
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NGC 7023 – The Iris Nebula
© Tony Hallas via Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Oh I do love this… the way the sky can talk to us… how we find shapes in the stars (like a dream)
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Thank you, Björn. Yes, a message waiting to be found.
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I love this line: “the ripple-woven light of nebulae,” It has such a great sound, as well as creating a lovely image.
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Thank you, Merril. 🙂
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You’re welcome. 🙂
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I like those heaven-driven wishes and never to be broken vow.
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Thanks, Frank.
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Beautiful. I love the journey to that “never-to-be-broken vow.”
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Thank you.
I know I’m pleased with the journey!
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well done, a Dylan-full poem!
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Merci!
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Good on you for continuing with the DT theme; love what you did with /ripple-woven/. Perhaps the next step is to write one of these using your own compound words.
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Thanks. I’ll have to give that some thought!
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I agree with Glenn. There’s no need to borrow Thomas’s, you can write equally vivid compounds that mean more to you.
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Now to work up the motivation!
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If you can do it with someone else’s words (which I find well-nigh impossible) you can do it with your own 🙂
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“the ripple-woven light of nebulae,”.. gosh this is gorgeously rendered! ❤️
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Thank you, very much!
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Your choice of compound words worked well together. A much lighter poem, full of energy.
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Thanks, Jade. I really needed to counter the previous poem.
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Great homage to Thomas. Magic.
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Thank you, Beverly.
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Love how you threaded this together.
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I blame my muse!
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And thank you!
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This has such gallantry! (K)
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Thank you!
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I enjoyed this as I am a star-gazer. So this captured a piece of my heart.
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Thank you!
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Add me to the “ripple-woven light of nebulae” fans!
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Thank you. 🙂
Early on, I gathered my love poems in a collection titled “The Nebulous Collection,” with a line, “a siren calls from an interstellar cloud,” so nebulae have been key to us from the beginning.
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This is my favorite line, “the ripple-woven light of nebulae.” Love and the star filled sky, both mysterious and beautiful.
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Thank you, Ali. 🙂
“star-gestured wishes” came to me right away, but “the ripple-woven light of nebulae” also is my favorite line. I think it’s hers, as well.
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celestially sweet! love it!
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Thanks!
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You created a lovely story and sentiment with DT’s compound words. He surely does inspire!
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I loved the enticing language of the poem.
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Really like this love poem from the Atmos! Excellent Ken!
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