Dreams in the Sky

Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes

Carl Jung

invitations challenge airs

declinations spurn
reprimands from the stars

gifted is the sky
accepting battles and trysts
where heavenly bodies unite

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There are 9,096 stars visible to the naked eye in the entire sky.

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she waits in dreamtime

parched
her features sallow

the rainbow serpent slithers
rivers run
she drinks deeply

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The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as a creator god, by Australian Aboriginals.

careful as the sea

travel by darkness
on endless waves

thundering at midnight
a splash of moonlight
wakes the horizon

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Cherita:
The Cherita is named from the Malay word for story. It is a poem consisting of 3 stanzas. The first stanza is a single line. The second is a couplet and the third is a tercet. The line lengths are at the poet’s discretion. It is untitled, centred on the page, and has no requirement to rhyme since it is modelled on the haiku/tanka.

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Poetry Forms

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