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.