Jul 13, 2020
Star Week
Written In The Stars
Learning from the past to make a better future
It’s written
in the stars, they say. Yet
from so many lightyears away, stars
reveal us a long-gone
yesterday.
I’m intrigued by the contradiction that we think the stars can tell us our future, while, due to their distance, what we see is something from a very distant past. Maybe this tells us that we should learn from the past. Not make the same mistakes. Look at where we are, what has happened, and then make a better future. Maybe that is what is written in the stars.
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 below the poem:
If you like this party, I recommend star gazing at these poems by Joanna Vang, Katie Rodante and Emma Laver-Scott:
My poem is a tritriplicata. If you want to know what that is, you’ll find the answers here:
