Index poe0010 Genre Poetry Author Desmond Tarrant Date 23.08.01 Title ‘Stars’ Stars The film unfurls upon its steady wings The plot unravels while the singer sings Upon these shades the stars do hold their sway As stars upon the screen their lines do say While out among the galaxies the gods Observe and wait in patience we who plod Our way at last into the telephone Directory of cosmic starlit homes The gods were once such shades as we are now Cast for parts upon this earth to show how Man his way may make with Ariel in tune To storm the barricade of symbols soon To reveal their hidden lustrous charm Within the arms of Venus safe from harm Thus our Destiny is ensured at last As patterned energy is beamed so fast From starlit spaces upon the faces here Of moonstruck minions who, skirting Lear’s Madness on borderlands of breakthrough And Hamlet out of tune and harsh, woo The Garbo of the souls intensity As light, colour and mobility Agreed the shades to grant a respite From the cradle of the Earth’s foul cesspit At last a star is born and wings its way To divinely sprung divans of saffron. May The mind evolved from ape to angel claim To be a self-luminous celestial name Where Time, an eternal flame, burns brightly To light empyrean’s carouses nightly And scorn Earth’s sordid tremors lightly Far, far at last from morbid fears unsightly