Celestial Bodies Poem by Mark Heathcote

Star of aniseed, taste buds gradually numbed
With the meaning of life, aching from within
Ah, for that celestial, warmth touch-of-her-skin
Velvet as a rosebud like a bee succumbed.
Nights spent beholding them: till fast asleep
Each cluster learned, begins to reteach:
Stars geographically, they're too far to reach
But I've two orbiting - they're mine to keep
I gaze at their heavens long into the night.
Loves - honey - once it rolls off the tongue
Root sticks in your heart like a boomerang.
Starlight blinds but it mellows-to-moonlight
& as it does, I am always transfixed,
Heart & soul with body fluids intermixed.