Ever-Rising Star

Collage created by Kerry O'Connor

Let your face be a canvas

An ever-rising star

Radiant!

Make a bold statement

In black & white

You are unique

Born to express yourself

Trust in every new tomorrow

Discover the secret of Love

It’s your time to smile

Say goodbye & live well

A dream come true



I had to create something special for the final Music with Marian challenge in the Imaginary Garden. Thus I set upon an old magazine to find a poem amid the words.
Marian and I go back to before the inception of Real Toads. We met by total accident, or fate.. bumped into one another on the blogs and stuck together through thick and thin. Her blog runaway sentence is one of the first I discovered, when I was entirely new to the forum of online poetry publishing. It has remained true to Marian's vision and her writing is a constant source of  inspiration to me personally, as well as to countless poets and fellow toads.

Thank you so much, sister-poet, for all and everything you are.

Valediction

And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
I screamed, and—lo!—Infinity—
Came down and settled over me
Edna St Vincent Millay

for Shay

Farewell, I said, to the fallen tree,
I said to the sky, Don’t cry –
We’d been together for many a year,
Tall tree, blue sky and me –

Good fortune brought us together,
Scribbling poems of leaf and wing –
Let’s sing today our final song,
Farewell dear, for the long forever –

Day 22 ~ FORTUNE

Shay is singing her swansong in The Imaginary Garden Today. There is NO Substitute!