Written for:  Poetics Aside #516 – “Write a star poem.”

Her star silvered all
who surrounded her
with diminutive
diamonds of light.
Her brightness glided
on stairs made of moonlight.

Like ordinary people,
she aged. No amount
of polish would return
that silver gleam. Roles
of ingènues stopped
coming her way. She gazed
at the new glamor girls
who looked so young, songs
not yet sung. She smiled
at them in contentment.
What a glorious life she
had led . . . so far.

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