Up There
A Poem
Down here there’s laundry and the daily grind, Up there, things just burn
Down here there’s a war between Almost everything, and everyone
Between science and politics, between those that Would like to live and those who would like for them to die,
Up there, things just are — life, non-life, dying - And it’s simple and does not ask what anyone thinks
It does not ask what to do next It does not ask for permission
Stars shine brightly Regardless.
Jenny Justice, Poet. Sociologist. Teacher. Mother. Woman. Author of Love in the Time of Climate Change and Reveal. You can read more of her poetry at Justice Poetic. Sign up for her newsletter here.
The Star Week prompt, in brief:
Now let’s look up — let’s dream, let’s aspire, let’s become overwhelmed with the biggest of big pictures. We are on a planet. It is in space. Space is vast. There are stars. They are beautiful. Let us continue reflecting and welcoming the second half of 2020 by sharing our hopes with the stars, the constellations, the elements of air and space, of whatever else is up there for us to gaze on, wish on, pin our hopes to. Let’s take the rest of July, surrounded by flowers, to stargaze.
- . Submit your poems to any Medium publication.
- Tag them with all the things you wish to, but let’s create the tag Star Week,
- Let’s give 7 days of stargazing poems to the universe, to 2020, to each other.
- Also tag me in your poems too, because I want to be sure to see them!
For more on the prompt, and for a nice tribute and summary of the prompt that started it all, Floral Week, check this out:
And now for some very lovely recent contributions to Star Week
Thank you Jim McAulay🍁
Lovely, just lovely Saurabh
Gorgeous, Priyanka Srivastava
And my poem Moon Flower, that said goodbye to Floral Week and hello to Star Week ❤
I will try to feature a few lovely poets each Star Week contribution — do the same if you can, it’s delightful. For anyone we miss, for anyone interested check out the tag Star Week and follow along. And join us! Thank you!
