Star Week

Ode To The Sun

A poem celebrating hope and our source of warmth

Photo by Tono Graphy on Unsplash

Your absence
defines the moment we
can gaze at your kin and dream our dreams.
Then you warm us again,
new day’s dawn.

This poem is written for Star Week. A wonderful initiative by Jenny Justice, inspired by the Floral Week fun ignited by Tapan Avasthi. Star Week is a poetry party where poets aim to inspire hope. As Jenny puts it:

Now let’s look up — let’s dream, let’s aspire, let’s become overwhelmed with the biggest of big pictures.

Want to join the party? This is one of Jenny’s Star Week poems, you can find the prompt at the end:

Up There

If you like this party, I recommend star gazing at these poems by James G Brennan, Samantha Lazar and Martin Rushton:

Star Dust

Poetry from the Earth and Sky

The Star Drifters

My poem is a tritriplicata. If you want to know what that is, you’ll find the answers here:

What Is That Tritriplicata Thing?