It’s 4 a.m. and you stand on the lawn,
knees slightly bent, head back, facing
infinity, scanning for meteors. Come on;
it’s time for bed, I Zebedee, but you beg,
Just one more. And so I watch you
watching for falling stars, diamond scatter
from the Milky Way, and think of the tip-tilt,
star-gazey hare in the moon. There! look!
You point skywards, but the pointing finger
roots me firmly to the earth. Come on,
I say, but you are galaxies away, determined
to wait for Just one more.
It’s that time of year again: time for the Perseids, which I saw for the first time lying in Battersea Park two day’s after I had my wisdom teeth out. Although I was with a couple of radio hams who assured me they were ‘meteor scatter’, even some thirty years later I still wish when I see a shooting star.
Al leer me he acordado de esta canción:
http://www.goear.com/listen/60ed629/10-shooting-star-bob-dylan
Es casi tan buena como tu poema.
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No creo que sea la mejor de sus canciones, pero claro que me gusta.
Y mi poema…? Pues, a ver si llega algún poeta angloparlante para criticarlo como es debido!!
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