Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRAIRIE STARS, by MINNIE HITE MOODY


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PRAIRIE STARS, by                    
First Line: How many ages have these silent stars
Last Line: These stars shall gild this prairie's diadem!
Subject(s): Prairies; Stars; Plains


How many ages have these silent stars
Dotted the darkness of this firmament?
How many generations have been blent
With the lost blood of desperate border wars,
And dust that flashed in burnished scimitars
Of waving grass before its hour was spent?
The ancient glacier's frozen malcontent
Once rolled this way beneath that same red Mars.
Then what am I who pause a moment here,
One with the wind and night, yet not of them?
One with the earth, yet strangely separate
This breath, this heartbeat, this ephemeral tear.
A thousand, thousand summers past my fate
These stars shall gild this prairie's diadem!





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