Poetry by Sara Aziz

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Planet of Beauty

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Where a thousand things will float around the sky, fire, ice, and breathless lies,

Venus glides, a planet of beauty and shallow, indescribable follies.

Of dreams once sent,

of dreams never answered,

of beauty without substance, with only fire to its name,

and with its allure so callous and cold,

came the goddess of love,

Venus of old. Of astronomers who gazed upon the sky, when faced with the enchantress, could only cry,

And say it was fire, and say it was ice, and say it was full of terrible delights,

Of which their minds, so clever and irreprehensible, which were so fixed on what was unattainable,

Like the goddess of old, her beauty so fake, she shifted her form with every human she faced,

Ever changing, ever going, yet empty and cold, of malicious curlings in her veins, jealousy and hatred burning her brain,

She hated the glory that was not hers, and the myths say she was cruel as a world, of dry rivers and bare plains, of no air in the sky, no air we could breathe, and so we would die, in its elegance and pain.

A planet of fire,

A planet of ice,

A planet of beauty and terrible delights.

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Planet of Seas

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The planet of seas yet untamed,

of the blue face so many have named,

Of ice and fear and liquid life, of potential and quiet and human wonders,

of tears of worlds, yet unfound, have left their hopes upon its cold bounds,

Its serenity is unmatched, in a universe of silence, blackness, and fear, stretching for miles,

upon miles, upon universes of truths ours have yet to find.

And one we have,

we reject,

in the name of science, and yet for pride,

and yet insanity is called our lies, and have we no shame in our pronouncements and changes, of which should not be,

and yet the world goes on,

and yet the universe continues,

and for shame shall we go on,

and for shame shall we abandon the world our ancestors have built for this oasis of quiet,

in our world of torment,

a world of oceans,

and seas,

and peace,

yet untrod by our human feet.

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Planet of Speed

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The burning planet,

set on fire,

from the flames that keep us alive, with a warmth that keeps us on our wits, and duels of honors broken vows,

it’s speedy in its revolving, the gods of Rome once sent,

and named him Mercury, and away he went, his sandals of gold keeping him aloft as he soared about to protect the lost,

and so the ancients could only say,

to this planet of speed and fire away,

‘Mercury, he is, and Mercury he shall be!’

And away he flew throughout the galaxy!

And so we hear, from time to time,

his laughter at our petty crimes,

and some say he still protects the lost and the lonely,

a smile and skip away,

and so the history is not gone, and the planets revolve,

spinning, spinning, until eternity and a day.

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