Aquarius

 Aquarius

As we lay and watched the star

Listening to her voice

Its inflating beauty and strength

Began to fuel our souls with wonder and excitement

For it was time

To explore

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She could take you

Anywhere your heart desired

Without means of money

Or authority

Solely equipped with the mind and body’s

Most mighty and exotic tool

The imagination

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We soaked in every word

Like dry sponges on the edge of a bath

For there was much that she could offer us

Much for us to learn

And we were drip fed these adventures

Every Saturday night  

Like rations

We needed them

And they needed us

To full-fill their purpose and to come alive

~

For they were no ordinary fairy tales

Plucked from a dog eared softened book

Nor were they available for reading at all

There was only one

Person who could create these quests

Exclusive through one

Ever-lasting story that would keep us

Hooked until

Life’s curiosities changed in size and shape

And we forgot what was wonderful

About living

And remembered what was stressful

About growing up.

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The story was fashioned in the mind’s eye

Of the world’s most wonderful

Woman

Who devoted her life

To her loved ones

To make them happy

And to feel loved

Always

She

My favourite

Nanny.

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Snuggle up tight with me you three

You’ll need your warmth

Where ever we may be

For now’s the time to find the star

In the dark night’s sky so very far

Away from here it glows just faintly

Spot the one that flickers quaintly

And watch it grow 

As it comes near

The window sill where we won’t fear

As it shall land upon the grass

Without a sound for its great mass

And we will rise and go to see

The star that soon will let us flee

To lands afar of our own choice

When we hear her little voice

A door will open small yet tough

For it is surely safe enough

To enter hand in hand and face

The delicate soul with a cheerful grace

Who’s nature’s kind and quite gregarious

Our precious friend

The great

Aquarius

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Whilst peering through the gauzy walls

Of her great star that only falls

To take us travelling across the sky

To places in our own mind’s eye

Adventures only we will know

She asks:

“Where would you like to go?”

©Shay Crinkle 2014 for Nanny X