Nancy Bennett
Pacifying the Serpent Stars
To pacify the serpent stars
they send out radio waves
they bounce off me, harmless, I send them on their way.
They watch me with long eyes from a terra oasis
late at night where the city lights won't dull their view
in the distance howls the wolf, she who knows...I linger outside the milky way,
drawing in the rays from the morning bleeding of a rising sun
starfire from my finger tips
I spread out and touch all those who seek
the serpent in the stars.I become the serpent, changing my skin.
shedding old notions
erupting into a new millennium I whirl my spiral dance
coiling in and out and constricting in space
expanding when they least expect it, I am .
the white diamond, who cuts through the lies,
I am the serpent in the tree
I offer the knowledge left dangling in front of me
and I am not afraid of being removedfor I am a serpent star, intermingling with dreams
I sought the milk from the milky way and like my cousin dragon
I was lulled into sleep
but now after millennia, I have awoken.
Heralding the day when all that we reach for
shall not be forbidden.
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