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 until
merge of his-and-her-skies diverge until 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 smiles  falling like a star 
    for  y o u