Today, I was challenged to make a “Personal Universal Deck” and then to write a poem using it. I hadn’t heard of a Personal Universe Deck before, but it’s a way of describing your life in 100 words, the good and bad, taking 80 of those words to describe the five senses and another 10 for words of movement. You can find out more here: Personal Universe Deck | Paul E Nelson

I’ve recently written a Greek myth about Selene, the goddess of the moon, so I think my poem was partly inspired by her.

Stars weave their way

across a midnight sky,

chasing the moon, a

silver disc set in an

indigo sea.

Dawn slowly rises,

shading the heavens in

palest lilac until

the world is

awake.