Celestial Bodies by Paige Mongon

As I compose the last blog post of my sophomore year (I hate to be cheesy, but it’s kinda surreal even just
writing that), I’m at a loss of what to discuss. A majority of my blog posts this year (or, let’s be honest, ALL
of my blog posts this year) have been rants, so I figured that maybe for this blog I should do something a
little different. I’ve always loved writing poems, but I haven’t composed any in a while (aside from the
recent English assignment, of course). So, for this blog post, I’ve decided to write a (very short) free verse
poem inspired by the late hours I keep (which unintentionally began to derail into a poem about the stars
whoops). Admittedly, it is not the longest of poems, nor is it the most eloquent, but nonetheless here it is (:

celestial bodies

i am one of the night 

it is i who knows the moon, 

i who embraces her coruscating light

with the familiarity of an old friend

i seek solace in the evanescent stars

in their comforting glimmer 

for they are the ones

who keep me company 

throughout the lonely hours 

as they stand stoic guardians 

over the eternal inky vastness of space 

companions of the planets and moons

they shine unabashedly 

their ethereal glow 

seeping down to comfort earthly objects 

their soft light dripping like spun honey 

from trees swathed in the protective darkness

that is the unapologetic night

a night which is not broken but 

rather carefully speckled 

by the intermittent light of celestial bodies

whose distance does little 

to hinder their benevolent luminescence

as they stand meticulous watch 

over a slumbering earth 

and her not-so slumbering inhabitants

It’s a wide, wild, wonderful place out there (: