Prompt
Write a short poem (rhyming not necessary) that includes each of the following 5 words (anywhere and in any order). Poems should not exceed 7 or 8 lines.
Star
Stairway
Memory
Hour
Light
Stairway
Memory
Hour
Light
***
a pathway of pebbles at night,
memory’s labyrinth of light
reaches a dark star
through an hour ajar
and a heretical power
ascends subterranean
staircases to the heart.
memory’s labyrinth of light
reaches a dark star
through an hour ajar
and a heretical power
ascends subterranean
staircases to the heart.
— James B. Moog
Many thanks to Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo who did me the great honor of surprising me with a Spanish translation which I prefer greatly to the original English:
la luz laberíntica de la memoria
rebasa a la estrella oscura
de esta hora entreabierta.
Entonces una fuerza herética
asciende las escaleras sumergidas
que dan directo a nuestro corazón.
-James B. Moog
Finally, I couldn't help submitting another poem anonymously:
an unsuspecting hour.
Memory, that silver star, refuses
her curtain calls. I am
enchanted by a spiral stairway—
shadow play
before and beneath it—
and a single candle.
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