Stardreaming

This is Daryl Edelstein's photo of artist Isaiah Zagar's work in mosaics. At Real Toads, the prompt is to write to one of the pieces presented by the two artists. If you click on the link to Toads, you can see more of their work.

In the blues and the mauves,

you can see me dreaming.

In the center of the real world,

I withdraw to a vantage point

that sees above,

that flies beyond,

that finds the purpose 

and the meaning

which I translate into art.

Under all of the batterings

and the losses,

the cageings and freeings,

there has been this Voice,

for a hundred years,

keeping up a constant commentary-

life seen through

the poet's eyes,

stardreaming.

With our pens

we can take a massacre

and find something of honor.

We can take a chained slave

and set her free.

We can paint the world

as we wish it to be,

as it should and could be,

if every poet had

a magic wand.

We can paint the world

as beautiful

as our eyes

will let us see.