---
title: The Big Dipper
genre: verse

id: big-dipper
toc: "The big dipper"

project:
    title: Stark Raving
    class: stark
    order: 2
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    - title: The Moon is drowning
      link: moon-drowning
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      link: poetry-time
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    - title: The Death Zone
      link: death-zone
    - title: Table of Contents
      link: table_contents
...

| After searching for days or even months
| I finally find it reclining lazily
| [above the peaks][] above the city as if to ask
| Did you miss me?  Yes very much I reply
| and rush to embrace it but it smiles
| and recoils and tells me No no you
| have to try harder than that it says
| I do not give myself up so easily

| I try a different tack
| I sing to it bring it flowers nightly
| I compare its eyes to the morning dew
| it has not seen the morning dew
| I say its mouth is the sunset over mountains
| it knows mountains but the sunset
| is only a rumor from the Evening Star
| I tell the Big Dipper that it moves
| [like a quiet river across the earth][]

| Rivers I have seen says the Big Dipper
| they sparkle in the light from my stars
| Your stars like eyes I say and it smiles
| [No it says that is too easy][]
| It turns its back
| it walks home along the back of the mountain

[above the peaks]: finding-the-lion.html
[like a quiet river across the earth]: no-nothing.html
[No it says that is too easy]: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/writer