Dancing Raindrops, Shining Stars
Full Moon in Aries Poetry Slam September 29, 2023
Good morning, friends!
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:49 Dancing Raindrops, Shining Stars—written and read by AstroMommy
4:12 thank you
Before I read my poem, here are some important reminders:
You can find word list #17 for this poem here if you’d like to write one, too! Remember this is not a poem about full moons it’s just a poem using the words in the list in the order they are in. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, please read this post that explains what a “word poem” is and the directions for how to participate.
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Okay, here goes….
Dancing Raindrops, Shining Stars
By AstroMommy
Prologue
Once upon a time there was a shining star
Who danced under the moonlight
Bringing happiness to herself and others as she undulated and shook her magic hips
Sang her melodious songs
And smiled a refulgent smile
That burst forth reflective white smiles across the sea of faces in her audience, like breaking waves across the ocean
Then one day she met the man of her dreams and he changed her
Filled her up with seeds
That merged with her fertile soil and grew into amazing baby stars!
One by one, she grew and nurtured these stars, feeding them from her own Milky Way
She was happy and grateful to be their mother
She tucked away her own light in order to care for theirs
And over time the moonlit sky grew clouds, grey, and thick
That began to collect the memories from the sea, the smiles grew into droplets deep within these clouds
At some point, she knew, in the future, there would be rain…
***
Present Day
I had to assemble myself
It had been twenty years
The effect of dancing in my kitchen
To the pushing, pausing, playful, and provocative drumbeat
Had paid off
I had not forgotten
I did not have to troubleshoot to remember
Or look for the file on my hard drive
Because I had not lost it
It was right there
Pulsing inside of me to the rhythm the whole time
Like an Australian emu, it was essentially unstoppable
Like a heartbeat in something alive
Like the swirling current in the ocean
Like the sticky sap inside a tree
Like opening up an umbrella at the first drop of rain
Like an asterisk calling out a footnote
It was…inevitable
Like the coming of the dawn
the dropping of the leaves in fall
the plum trees blossoming in spring
For a long time, I have sat, waiting under an ominous overcast sky
Clouds plump and heavy like a pregnant kangaroo
And this summer it began
It finally began to rain…
First one drop and then two…three…four…
Freezing cold at first like spikey icicles, spreading goosebumps across my skin, shaking stuttery words out of my mouth
But then it warmed up to large tropical drops, cooling the sweat, and like dew on a morning flower, I began to bloom and open up my petals to the encouraging sun
Overland, I traveled to classes
And like a graceful dinosaur, I stomped, stepped, swooped, and swept!
Twirled and dragged, touched and spun!
I did my best to remove the cobwebs
From my joints
Extend my legs and arms and reach out to open up my chest
Melting the walls of my protected heart, like frost disappearing from a window pane
Like a digital signal opens up the connection
like a lark sings to the heavens, heralding the dawn
I raised each limb to the stars, bent it and straightened it, stretched it and curled it
Arching and undulating, gyrating and spinning
Allowing the brainy part of myself to rest, recuperate, and relax
It was time to dance again!
Shine, share, and shimmy my starlight
Not in my kitchen
In between mop strokes, dish wipes, and pancake flips
But with other people
Under scintillating yellow lights, surrounded by white-sea-capped faces
In front of floor-to-ceiling mirrors
It had been twenty years
But it felt as natural as opening my eyes and taking my first breath
I was alive again!
Previous word lists can be found in this master post.
Previous Word Poems by AstroMommy:
You Are A Mirror (Word Poem #1—1st poem-New Moon in Taurus/Full in Scorpio)
My Eggs Are Perfect (Word Poem #1—2nd poem-New Moon in Taurus/Full in Scorpio)
The Biggest Hill (Word Poem #2—New Moon in Gemini/Full in Sag)
You, Up? (Word Poem #3—New Moon in Cancer/Full in Capricorn)
How Do The Stars Speak? (Word Poem #4—New Moon in Leo/Full in Aquarius)
On The Beach In Fall (Word poem #5—New Moon in Virgo/Full in Pisces)
I Smell Like Peppermint (poetry/free write in place of a word poem for New Moon in Libra/Full Moon in Aries)
Terrible Poem (Word poem #6—New Moon in Scorpio/Full Moon in Taurus)
Broken Thoughts Spew Across The Page (Word poem #6, again…)
I did not post any poems for lists 7,8, or 9.
The Dream Garden (Word poem #10—New Moon in Pisces/Full Moon in Virgo)
beyond the wall, a torch burns brightly (Word poem #11—New Moon in Aries/Full Moon in Libra)
The Spider On The Gatepost (Word poem #12—Hybrid Solar Eclipse in Aries/Full Moon in Scorpio)
The Devil In My Dreams (word poem #13—Full Moon in Sagittarius)
To Be More (word poem #14—Full Moon in Capricorn)
Sometimes A Phrase Can Get To You (word poem #15—Full Moon in Aquarius)
Mercury Retrograde Sucks (word poem #16—Full Moon in Pisces)
Thank you for listening to this month’s Lunar Poetry Ritual word poem.
Until the next Full Moon,
AstroMommy