For some reason I just got the urge to write a story poem called “Once Upon A Starless Night”.
I suppose this happens to other writers, too. Sometimes a phrase or a couple of juxtaposed words will pop into my head, and my little neurons start to fire. Then I have to write it down, and most of the time it sort of flows like honey…
…slowly, sweetly, steadily.
I’ve really never been one of those “just-write-it-all-down-and-edit-later” kind of writers. That doesn’t work well for me. I like to play with the words in my head. Then I like to check them for rhythm. Even when it’s not poetry, I still like my creative writing to have its own rhythm. I guess that’s the musician in me. No…I KNOW that’s the musician in me. And maybe that’s why I edit as I write. It’s like rehearsing many times over before you ever perform.
Well…I think I’ve digressed a little. I originally just wanted simply to share an early morning story poem. So here is…
Once Upon A Starless Night
Once upon a starless night
I read, by the campfire light,
How a comet with its tail
Spied a nova and set sail.
You might think a comet flies
Aimlessly through endless skies,
But this one was really rare…
No more like it anywhere.
It could hear and think and see
Just as well as you or me.
“What?” you say. “That can’t be true.”
If it’s not, would I tell you?
Wait for any starless night
And turn out your bedroom light.
Then look up into the sky
With a wish inside each eye.
It might take a little while.
Then you’ll see a glowing smile
Followed by a sparkling tail
Leaving dream dust in its trail.
That’s the comet, silver gray,
Zooming through the Milky Way.
If, at first, you cannot see,
Just keep trying that’s the key,
And sometime you’ll get it right…
Once upon a starless night.
© 2014 Tony Funderburk (June)
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