Fishing For Stars: A Seeker's Anthology

By Ryleigh Pengel

Fishing For Stars: A Seeker's Anthology casts a fishing rod into the ocean of human experience, capturing facets of connection, impulse, contemplation, and the innate desire to seek. The reader will embark on a 43-poem journey, traveling through 5 stages and ultimately being left with a decision to make: to let desires sink or to reel them in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ryleigh Pengel
• Release date: Feb 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224085019

Book preview

Part I: Supernova Sinker

I Will Tend to Your Broken Body Until My Hands Are Cauterized

A Requiem of An Anemic Meteor

My Anemic meteor

A little enervated heaven

Dragging across the spotty nightscape

With all of your apple peel bruises.

In the next life you’ll act as a bright, burning celestial body.

You’ll linger as long as Halley

Coming and going like my winter blues

Dancing with the sun over thousands of years

Or perhaps you can reincarnate into Cassiopeia

Excelling in all your vanity and regality

More visible to Earth than the pigment in your skin.

Woefully, my dear

It will never be.

My pleas with the sky will never mold you into Halley or Cassiopeia

For you’ll eternally be my little anemic meteor

One day forgotten,

Burning out over the world.

Numbers

As the hands have crawled, I’ve become wary of numbers.

They touch me in a way that winter’s breath never could.

So final, so finite

Bulimic, engorging and plump

The least choicest berries on the tree.

The numbers on the phone,

The progress percent

The marker on the paper

The numerals with glass guards

They all hum a solemn tune,

Marching to a concrete, maddening beat

Something so robotic

But far too close to home

And far too familiar with the minerals under my skin.

I hollered and wailed for the numbers to stop

But my awaited bosom never came.

I tried to claw and clamber out of the depths of the display, but Cronos shoved me down.

I say damn it all.

Tree Dove

Tree Dove

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