Cosmos Crush

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If you read my article this week, you’ll know it was fuelled by crafting a poem with the theme ‘stardust’ from a #PoemsAbout prompt on Bluesky, curated by the amazing

Alan Parry

of Broken Spine Arts. Do follow the press, the person and the prompt if you’re at all interested in indie poetry. There’s a great community being forged there.

Without further ado, here’s the poem, as requested by

Beth Brooke

and a few other poetry pals.

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 ‘Star Stuff’

We began
with a bang;
born from stars.
Fused into existence
inside a helium core,
elements created,
with the first light shining 
on a swirling universe.

We are the cosmos
knowing itself.
We are carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen, water -
star stuff.

Something greater
than ourselves
is what we long for,
is what we are
a part of.

Look under a microscope
at human ashes
and you will see
galaxies -
a universe
Hubbled together.

We are never lost,
we are simply heading home,
stardust to stardust.