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# Wait, Stars - A poem
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- Published: 2024-03-16T12:47:46.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-16T12:47:46.000Z
- Description: A poem by Simon Smith from his book Waiting for a Hunter's Moon.
- Author: Cambria Stories
- Tags: Waiting for a Hunter's Moon, Simon Smith

A poem by Simon Smith from his book *Waiting for a Hunter's Moon*.

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Wait, stars, as I try to set this straight:  
you not only illuminate  
the night sky as we navigate  
the darkened byways of our lives,  
you also somehow orchestrate  
our every fear, ambition, love,  
to some distant celestial date  
far beyond what our understanding may conceive.  
  
Now, winds, whichever way you blow,  
in whatever directions you may go,  
this much, at least, can be held up as true –  
you’ll always find the quickest route,  
never going around us but straight through,  
so delicately taking us apart  
that we never seem to realise how  
you’ve laid open the quiet corners of our hearts.  
  
Come, clouds, start your silent advance  
and, with your subtle cadences  
insinuate those half-imaginings  
in shades of what we think we know we saw.  
Smudge out a path across the skies  
and down the half-lit slopes of dawn.  
Come, laden with your inconsistencies.  
Colour our waking with your undertones.

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#### Waiting for a Hunter's Moon

An anglers journey through the seasons.

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