Poem: "Orion" by Roy Carnon
How quiet you are tonight Orion
how old your hanging light
straddling the garden of our lost millennia.
And I can say Aldebaran bore me
rapt in arctic white
and fiercer Sirius
caged in the sextant's bubble
suffered my craft
frail in his tropic eye.
And I am quiet tonight Orion
for I am old
and join the chorus the silent symphony
that with your ancient light does
blind in sun-birth.
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Poem: "Astro War" by Roy Carnon
I watched the slow rolled dice of Pegasus
cast a winged ingratitude
where skylane cuts a graticule of sea
to lay the white of sun and loss.
Old men and calculating telescopes
resurrect lost gods
in two dimensioned planispheres
shared with enemies
through sights of hate.
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Poem: "In this Room" by Roy Carnon
In this room
fantasy patterns of childhood
frenzied the walls
and I counted the paper roses of youth.
Here my Mother's slippered love
padded the stair
to smooth my heart
creased with lying.
From the bowl of birth
I tasted death --
counting the careful years
pulsing through the blue window.
And in the teasing sky
I have outpaced the clouds
to the impossible star;
I have followed the sun
and my shadow has travelled the earth
leaving but the dust of a dream
and a little less light.
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Poem: "Orientation" by Roy Carnon
Rising green
grass colonises
suckling predator and weed
to breed a ruminant strain
of jackal.
Winter brings relief
but in the vegetal kingdom
the continuity is accepted.
Moon understands the need
of original fetus
to root in sin's inception --
sensing
the pre-set balance
ordained in invariable seed.
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