Galaxies

You are made of Heaven and Earth

In those still rare moments

with the chance to study your face

so intimately close to mine,

I happen across the Earth and heavens

etched into your lines.

Gently cradling your hand in mine,

I trace my fingers along the roadmap

of veins that run the length of your wrist.

Those red rivers that carry your life

from the source into deltas and streams.

Up your arms, down your body

is your protection, the surface of your planet

spotted with fathomless craters and blazing stars.

Between the mountains on your back,

the tree trunk that supports your frame

branches into the limbs and digits that caress.

I am lost in the galaxies that my mouth leaves for you:

the Milky Way on your side almost outshines

the Andromeda on your shoulder. 

The complexity of the solar systems

shines through the purple moons under your eyes.

Your irises show me every sky in your worlds. 

from misty to radiant to stormy grey;

they are cosmically breathtaking

above laughter lines stretching like canyons.

Reviews

[eglantine]

Wow girlie! "The complexity of the solar systems / shines through the purple moons under your eyes." What an amazing image/metaphor! You fluidly weave together so many earthly and space-centered images. The poem gains momentum and steals an impressed gasp from the reader.

[Sydney]

Reading this I felt like I was taken on a tour through space and I loved it. I love correlating space to the human body. We are stardust after all.. Beautiful piece

[Melinda McQueen]

This is a great write.
Very well expressed. I enjoyed the read.

[AaronFreitas]

This is a very good write Gabi (I assume Gabi). I enjoyed it very much... love the creativity :)

[gabiaimee]

You assume correctly!

[Lizardo]

This is really an incredible piece of writing, I felt like I was watching everything in space!
You really transported me to the universe! awesome.
Anyways, I love the flow of the poem, it is really, like JC said, Celestial.
Nice job writing this one, it is really good.

[JC]

incredibly celestial and flowing, a great weaving between human and universe and how they are one and the same. I thought it ended perfectly without the very last line, the last line made it feel like there should be more but ending on "cosmically breathtaking" I thought was a beautiful finality, just my outlook tho, stupendous work.

[Haley Wilson]

Beautiful work. I am going through a situation right now and this poem was quite relevant as to what I feel for a certain person. I love this poem!

[Richard]

This is really imaginative
& good

[Saddam]

Great imaginary here.
I love it, the segments.

[Abdul Rahman S]

This is a great imagination. Great way to mingle galaxy and body. That's a master act gabiaimee..Keep rocking..