lost in the stars

is the title of one of my favorite Kurt Weill songs and one that a voice student was working on tonight.  And, as it is the height of the Perseids, it seems apt to use these lyrics for Poetry Friday.

Went for a walk after work tonight to clear my head and to hopefully level out my sleeping pattern after Monday's all-nighter and found, to my delight, Romeo and Juliet were at Volunteer Park.  If you can't tell by the blurred snap, this is a dramatic fight scene over Juliet's 'corpse'.

I don't know if you're able to see the Space Needle and the crescent moon, but they were stunning tonight.  The twilights lately have literally been breathtaking.

The literal s/cent of the day.

Lost in the Stars 

Maxwell Anderson

Before Lord God made the sea and the land,

He held all the stars in the palm of His hand,

And they ran through his fingers like grains of sand,

And one little star fell alone.

Then the Lord God hunted through the wide night air

For the little dark star on the wind down there

And he stated and promised he'd take special care

So it wouldn't get lost again.

Now a man don't mind if the stars grow dim

And the clouds blow over and darken him,

So long as the Lord God's watching over them,

Keeping track how it all goes on.

But I've been walking through the night and the day

Till my eyes get weary and my head turns gray,

And sometimes it seems maybe God's gone away,

Forgetting the promise that we heard him say--

And we're lost out here in the stars,

Little stars, big stars, blowing through the night,

And we're lost out here in the stars,

Little star, big stars, blowing through the night,

And we're lost out here in the stars.