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Stars, Planets, Heavens

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSky Glee

    By Jane Flett
    Last night, at the excavation: pig wine & a searchlight moon. We watched seven equidistant stars make…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    sǫ’

    By Manny Loley
    chahóółhxeel
    sǫ’ bitsádinidiin
    nahookǫs bikǫ’
    binaago deikaah
    sǫ’ binahjį’
    hane’ náás oot’ih
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinestar poem

    By Manny Loley
    Translated By Manny Loley
    night drapes
    stars emit light
    around the north star-fire
    stars journey
    in their wake
    stories extend…
  • Audio
    By Manny Loley
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWhere’s My Moon?

    By Carole Boston Weatherford
    Gazing at the sky, all cloud-strewn
    A child wonders, Where’s my moon?

    Child cries a river like a monsoon…
  • Poem
    By Luivette Resto
    Your obsession is baffling,
    with numerous stanzas dedicated to my phases
    and the personification of …
  • Poem
    By Li-Young Lee
    Doubt everything.
    But never doubt the moon
    was in the room with us that night.
    It touched each place…
  • Poem
    By Thomas Traherne
    I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly,
    New Peeple; yea, another Sky
    And Sun, which seen by Day
    Might things…
  • Poem
    By Sri Chinmoy
    Within, without the cosmos wide am I;
    In joyful sweep I loose forth and draw back all.
    A birthless, deathless…
  • Poem
    By Federico García Lorca
    Verde que te quiero verde.
    Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
    El barco sobre la mar
    y el caballo en la montaña.
    Con la sombra en la cintura,
    ella sueña en su baranda
    verde carne, pelo verde,
    con ojos de fría plata.
    Verde que te quiero verde.
    Bajo la luna gitana,
    las...
  • Poem
    By Federico García Lorca
    Translated By Sarah Arvio
    Green I want you green
    green wind green branches
    Boat on the sea and
    horse on the mountain
    Shadow on her waist
    she dreams at her railing
    green flesh green hair
    eyes of cold silver
    Green I want you green
    Under the gypsy moon
    things are seeing her
    but she can’t...
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