Gemini and Andromeda burn
among a welter of stars:
some are rising, others have fallen,
they are the souls of mortal children.
Remember to catch the falling stars,
polish them until they sparkle and glisten,
love them so much they won’t explode
or disappear down a black hole.
Kim M. Russell, 2018
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Wordy Thursday With Wild Woman: Being the Change
This Thursday, Sherry tells us about Marjory Stoneman Douglas, (1890 – 1998): feminist, activist, journalist and environmentalist, known especially for her defence of the Everglades, when developers wanted to drain it. The site of the latest school shooting in Florida was the high school named after her. Sherry says that she is inspired by the young people who are rising and speaking out in response to this tragic event, and suspects that Ms Stoneman Douglas would be standing with them.
For today’s prompt, Sherry asks what words of encouragement or support can we offer the young people of today? What words of love and sorrow, inspiration and hope?
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Lovely. And wonderful backstory too. (K)
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Seriously, if we don’t call our reps, if we don’t vote accordingly, these youth will have died in vain! But it seems to me the vocal high schoolers are making sure this won’t happen.
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Wonderful poem! Our best way to support them is to vote for change, speak up and make sure these students are not sold out again.
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Thank you!
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A poignant idea, that the falling stars are the souls of mortal children. What a beautiful analogy……..sigh. We do need to love our young ones well, so they dont fall into those black holes. Thanks for linking, Kim.
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Thank you for your appreciation, Sherry.
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Nobody wants to see a child’s star fall, and especially not as victims of violence. The world is a troubled place; we must protect the future in our children.
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Absolutely, Kerry.
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Native people believe stars are our ancestors. We can say, “The answers are in the stars.” Thank you Kim for such lovely thoughts.
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Thank you for reading and commenting, Annell.
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Now I am thinking each time we kill a “star,” the black hole gets a little deeper.
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“love them so much they won’t explode
or disappear down a black hole”
Beautiful.
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Thank you!
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Excellent! 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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Thanks Dorna! 🌌
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Love how you tied this to the falling stars.. we need to polish them all… they are our future… we are soon the past.
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Thanks Bjorn!
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I like that you have stars disappearing down the black holes. Spoundsscary, they will never return.
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I like those stars disappearing down the black holes. Never to reappear. BTW, we have families of turtles in East Texas sunning on fallen logs and swimming in the water holes.
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Simply beautiful!
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