Slipstreaming the Light

By Steve Kelly

Poems about life, love, the universe and everything by Australian poet and artist Steve Kelly aka kellyocs

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steve Kelly
• Release date: Jun 7, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227120199

Steve Kelly

Steve is an art and computing teacher with a passion for writing both fiction and poetry. This is his first collection of short stories. He lives and works on the far north coast of New South Wales (Australia)

Book preview

Of Fire and Light

The love song of eternity

Sings the planets home

From fruitless meanderings

From keeping their distance

Respectable

Orbit chained

Down the long dark round of stellar years

Gravity smashed

Passion empowered

Spiraling inward

Towards the source

Drawn on

They come

Finally succumb

To solar flares

Atomic fusion

Ecstasy blinding sight

And drab moths on wings of cosmic dust

Seeing death

Revealed as life made glorious

They beat and ignite

In the cleansing flames

Brilliant super nova

Falling into light

Dust Upon the Moon

Sunlight dances

On the moonscape

Of my memory

Creates

Deep craters

Of shadow

Lights the ridge tops

Like wave crests

Falling shoreward

Coming home

I have never drifted

That far out

On the sea

Tranquility or otherwise

Not to see

The place to return to

The centre

That calls me

And in dreams I have touched

The essence of love

And kicked up the dust

In joy upon the moon

Melodies of Light

We bring what we are

We are what we bring

Can we alter remembering?

Forget the dark and silent past

The shards of shattered heart

And see in the crystal glass

The spark of a lullaby

Set yourself at the beginning

When you knew light

When there was no light

When you sang

When there was no singing

In the heart of the one who loves you

And know for certain

The gentle wind is bringing