Sweet

They are lifesavers,
those deep dark nights

away from city lights,
when we gaze

at the Milky Way,
ooh and ah at a starburst,

and go to bed
dreaming

of light travelling
across the universe

to present us
with sweet delights.

Kim M. Russell, 22nd July 2025

It’s Tuesday and time for Poetics at the dVerse Poets Pub, this week with Lillian, who asks, ‘Who has a sweet-tooth?’

Lillian says that she has one and that she cannot have sweets in the house. If she does, she gobbles them all down in a day or two.

Lillian would like us to create a poem using any one or more of the names of sweets she has given in a list. We cannot change the name itself or the order of the words in the name or add any words between the words in the name. We can omit the word ‘bars’, for example in Milky Way Bars.

I chose Milky Way (bars), Lifesavers and Starburst.

41 thoughts on “Sweet”

  1. Loving this!!! It’s exactly how we feel about our annual two weeks in Provincetown on Cape Cod — standing on the deck oceanside, watching the moon and the stars. Ah yes….I’m entering your poem for sure! Good use of Lifesavers, Starburst and Milky Way….and most especially, the overall generic term of “sweet delights” at the end!

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  4. You’ve captured the beauty and magic of gazing up at the sky, Kim.

    And thank you, too, for the reminder of the song. I think I had this album. My husband, then boyfriend, was a big Jefferson Airplane/Starship fan.

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  11. We are incredibly fortunate in Southeastern Oregon to have the largest international dark sky sanctuary in the world ~~ 2. million acres! My son and I are letting his vacation days accrue to make the drive, plus a few overnights ~~ I can only imagine the starburst gazing. Your poem is lovely, Kim.

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