Hidden in their golden binnacle — secretly
the compass shows in comet’s tail. A trail,
directions perfume-lead in frankincense and myrrh
leading to the stable with the manger of noel.
They cannot dwindle, dawdle like the pachyderms
locked inside the darkness of kafkaesque plight.
But hurry, don’t be late for starlight of tonight.
Once again I have created a small poem from the words of #lqw and linked it up to lqw-week wordle.
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December 28, 2014
Björn Rudbergs writings
Poetry and fiction by a physicist from the dark side
Björn Rudbergs writings 
This is truly beautiful and to meet the prompt words too…lovely!
Love this, Bjorn – the compass shows in comets tail – wonderful! Hope 2015 holds many joys for you and yours – K
They must hurry! Some ventures cannot be compromised. Great write Bjorn!
Hank
Bjorn, Lovely poem for Christmas. 🙂 — Suzanne
The journey seems quintessential to human existence.
wonderful, mi amigo, especially ~the compass shows in momets tail
Fun words in this poem. I can feel the sense of the wise men’s urgency.
http://poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com/2014/12/unexpected-fireworks.html
Clever and then more than the sum of its parts with its call to hurry. We each have this star in our lives, a path to take up which in the end may give us more pleasure than our dawdling will.
Terrific use of the words. A lovely poem.
beautiful!
Genius. All the words perfectly belong where they are, like the stars themselves.
Definitely reminiscent of the Christmas feeling and the classical story of the birth of Jesus. Nicely done!
A tough challenge! The kafkaesque pachyderms felt a little awkward to me…but I like your theme, ending line and choice of artwork.
luv the Magi story so exquisitely well told, and you image is so different really luv this posting
Happy Holidays
much love…
🙂 Nice seasonal writing, Bjorn. Making the mystical magic of old explainable in terms of understandable today’s science and technology.
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!! HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
some hard words to use in poetry… Pachyderms? ha. And that last one sounds like a sneeze 🙂
A beautiful use of the words for the season.
Sure-footed, vicarious trip back centuries — you’re like an embedded photo-journalist….
Nicely woven into a Christmas theme. Wishing you a blessed 2015
loved the tone of expectancy in this
Their actions must surpass that of all others, in order to reach the starlight, delight in it, and deserve what it offers…
I like it!