ON A BIG BRIGHT NIGHT

 

Even older than creation,

stars exist beyond our calculation

and we gaze at them in adoration

as we sing to them in glorification

whilst they provide illumination.

 

For Mankind is so impatient

to hold a conversation

with distant civilizations

we hold our breath in fascination

as stars step out in celebration

to shine like a big, bright light above the nations

calling Mankind to an unknown destination

where lies the big, beating heart of constellations

transmitting universal illumination.

 

On a big, bright night the real sensation

is to see stars offering hope and revelation

for children seeking inspiration.

 

all participants in artist’s workshop

Conducted by Jo Gornall

Kirkholt Youth & Community Centre

22nd February 2011

Text facilitated by Norman Warwick

Just Poets

 

 

This poem was created from the imagination think-tank™ employed by Just Poets. Participants were asked where Imagination begins, and despite answers such as head, heart or soul the “correct answer” is always, “with an I.” The group discussed whether or this meant I, the self, or eye, and then identified words they could see within imagination, such as in, not, on and nation. The poet then shared the secret that there are “as many words in the dictionary that end in that –ation sound as there are stars in the sky”. The participants made a long list of such words to create a rhyming reservoir and used a selection of those words as line-end rhymes.