Groovy Island Girl: And the stars they glisten, glisten

The sky was beautiful out tonight. After watching Ugly Betty I decided to check it out and it looks like it was going to rain. The colors of the sky were a mixture of greys and blacks at its most subtle and there seem to be an invisible light shrouding all that which caused it to illuminate. The stars were out in full swing even though it was tiny bits of diamonds in the sky it was still pretty – gives the sky character. It was amazing. Then suddenly I felt light rain on my skin ahh what a way to end the Sunday stars and rain and a beautiful night.

Tonight I am going to sleep like a baby thanks to the rain and a very long tiring day but before I do I wanted to share this story from dailyinspirations.com which has one of my favorite poems in it.

We read some of Keats’s poems in school and my favorite was one about stars – I actually forgot all about it until I read this … so here is a ltitle something something all about the litte wonders in the sky that is beautiful endearing and hopeful ……..

And the Stars They Glisten, Glisten

Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what listen they?"
~ John Keats

Stars are balls of hydrogen gas that are so massive the centers burst into nuclear reactions. To dreamers, stars glimmer with hope and beauty.

Writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry' s famous Little Prince looked up at the sky and dreamed, "As I wonder...whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again."

On a clear, moonless night, away from the distraction of city lights, the naked eye can behold thousands of stars, twinkling jewels in the sky.

"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light," said Victor Hugo, the creator of Les Misérables.

The word constellation, the grouping of stars, is from the Latin cum "together" and stella "stars." Although modern astronomers divide the heavens into 88 constellations, stars can be seen as
different objects by different stargazers.

For example, the curved pattern of stars seen by Westerners as Scorpius (the Scorpion) is seen by Polynesians as the giant fish hook the god Maui used to form the Hawaiin Islands.

Whether legend, dream, or scientific fact...