Request

[appyella.livejournal.com]

I've searched the tags, and come up empty handed in my quest to find poems about the night sky (stars, constellations, planets, etc.). Any and all would be greatly appreciated and treasured, especially if they are, in anyway, about or relating to love. Thank you kindly in advance.

Also, so I needn't feel cheap requesting and not posting, I'll share one of my favorites. Though, I'd be surprised if it had not been posted before.

From up here in the crow's nest
I see a small crowd gather.
Who do you gather, my townsmen?
There is no news here.
I am not a trapeze artist.
I am busy with my dying.
Three heads lolling,
bobbing like bladders.
No news,
The soldiers down below
laughing as soldiers have done for centuries.
No news,
We are the same men,
you and I,
the same sort of nostrils,
the same sort of feet.
My bones are oiled with blood
and so are yours.
My heart pumps like a jack rabbit in a trap
and so does yours.
I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze
and so do you.
Not out of disrespect.
Out if pique.
Out of a man-to-man thing.
I want heaven to descend and sit on My dinner plate
and so do you.
I want God to put His steaming arms around Me
and so do you.
Because we need,
Because we are sore creatures.
My townsmen,
go home now.
I will do nothing extraordinary.
I will not divide in two.
I will not pick out My white eyes.
Go now,
this is a personal matter,
a private affair and God knows
none of your business.

-From The Book of Folly

Comments

[distractedfish.livejournal.com]

He wishes for the cloths of heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

- William Butler Yeats

[appyella.livejournal.com]

i may have read this before, something about it seems familiar.
thank you, nonetheless.