Love Poem: There Is a Star With My Name On It
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Written by: Susan Ashley

There Is a Star With My Name On It

Oh! how love has bloomed—

fantasies like wild flowers plucked
a collection of candlelight craves and desires
fill a wistful star-maiden’s basket;
a bouquet of white asters from Orion’s garden
grown in a fiery field of light against night
gathered in a hazy ribbon
and held in the bosom heat 
of this Autumn bloom’s passion

tender is the kiss blown from star-dusted lips
a need to gain goodwill in the "om" of zodiacal light
incandescence in full blow from a single breath;
fireflies in a fervor find favor 
with the midnight-scene-stealer; Selene
of locks of hair fair and skin lustrous bare
fertile with romantic flair— 
as this swooning flesh and blood angel 
closes her eyes and seeds her dream 
with the sheer intimacy and cosmic love-play 
of wishes wooed

amid astral petal-points pulsing with promise 
rosy sparks burn in a slow-dance dip..
one slips through the water-colored layers connecting
Sun of bright and Moon of dark in the thrill of twilight 
where hues suspend in sensual rendezvous ‘til
the merge of his-and-her-skies move towards the next dawn -

     there!  up there..
                             falls a star with my name on it

  and here..
                  laid into your wished-for-hands;
            a stargazer’s galaxy of heartbeats 
      with  y o u r  name on it -

as this dreamy red aster   falls for you