"...Mira in her death throes"

"...Mira in her death throes"

© 2009 Danilo Lejardi
(Mira is a red giant star estimated 200-400 light years away.)

I felt so moved when I first read Dead Suns and Dying Stars, the poem by artist Lianne that I couldn´t help but trying to create an image inspired by it. I know a single image cannot express nor the visceral universe of this poem, neither its infinite subtilities, but it´s just my way of trying to deal with my own feelings and to draw things out.
Thanks from the heart, dear Lianne, for feeding our souls with this outstanding inspiration!

Here´s the poem by artist Lianne Schneider.

Dead Suns and Dying Stars

Empty stars devoid of light,
ashen suns devoid of heat
litter the universe frozen, lifeless,
all dead or dying in the cosmos
winking out like houses gone dark.
And I am Mira in her death throes
orbiting the dead, cold core of you
my binary companion, love star whose
nearness once radiated light to me
whose chemistry generated atomic reactions
in my heart and in my superheated core-
the heat of our fusion the physics
of our intimate and co-dependent galaxy.
When your intense desire had cooled
and your inner fuel of love was spent,
your cataclysmic collapse became the trigger
that sent me hurtling through the cosmos
throwing off the light and heat and color
of all I had become in a fiery comet tail
signifying my fall from your grace.
A thousand light years from now
my death will still be emblazoned on the sky
for love dies no more quickly than a star.

© Lianne Schneider October 2009

"...Mira in her death throes" belongs to the following groups:

! Inspired Art !, All Out Emotion, ART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL, Art Inspired by Dreams, Back In Black ( sorry~NO PHOTOGRAPHY), Bryce and Beyond - 2 per day, Collaboral Damage, Core [C.O.R.E], EMI - The Group, First Things, Friends of RedBubble, Live, Love, Dream: , Mixed Media, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Reaching Freedom, The Art of 3D, The Graphic Room-Graphic and Digital Art, The Healing Journey, The Voyage Of The Surrealists and Vibration in Art and Verse - VAVoom! Available for sale as

Greeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints, Framed Prints and Posters