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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1071046-Sun
Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350
Poems for years 4 and 5 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.
#1071046 added June 13, 2024 at 5:52am
Restrictions: None
Sun
Sun

Must be terrible to be a sun
to spend all that time collecting dust
spinning in space and sucking in matter
having the gravity to squeeze one’s soul

totting up numbers astronomical
getting hot in the face with all that care
setting the spark to the burdened heart
and bursting into life and sight

incandescent and bright with hope
calling the children to gather round
weaving your stories of orbit and flight
caressing the dark with infinite light

aflame with creation and conflagration
and then in the height of blazing existence
to know that you’re just another pinprick
insignificant star in a cast innumerable.



Line count: 16
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 42 2024
Prompt: Sun.

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