{"id":662,"date":"2012-05-28T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2012-05-28T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:19:43","slug":"poem-shooting-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/poem-shooting-star\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Shooting Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">You are a shooting star<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Enjoy it while you can<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">And may others look up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">And see your light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The short poem focuses on the theme that life is short, yet it can be glorious.\u00a0 The first order of business is to enjoy life while you can.\u00a0 Following this, others may be blessed to look up and see the light of your life.\u00a0 I like the imagery of a night sky.\u00a0 The night sky is largely dark but becomes glorious with the many tiny sparkling lights strewn across the night sky.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, there is a strange partnership in that the great darkness makes the tiny lights shine all the more.\u00a0 However, even though the night sky may occupy much of our potential field of vision, it is often overlooked.\u00a0 In some way, this makes the beauty that is present all the more beautiful, considering the blessed few who are able to take advantage of such beauty.\u00a0 Perhaps ironically, these tiny distant lights in the night sky are actually huge stars, massive nuclear furnaces burning for billions of years.\u00a0 You&#8217;d think that might get our attention!\u00a0 Nonetheless, we seem to acclimate to such enduring glories.\u00a0 The irony is that tiny, short-lived lights in a motion, that is, shooting stars, are much more likely to grab our attention.\u00a0 So may your\u00a0 life be poetry in motion, capturing the attention of those who can appreciate it.\u00a0 And if not, may you at least be able to enjoy the burn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are a shooting star Enjoy it while you can And may others look up And see your light The short poem focuses on the theme that life is short, yet it can be glorious.\u00a0 The first order of business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/poem-shooting-star\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[537,664,303,512,267,359,658,94,491,53],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-beautiful","tag-beauty","tag-blessed","tag-business","tag-irony","tag-life","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-present","tag-short-poems"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Shooting Star | Poems | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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