Keep Planting Flowers

We All Die Anyway

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. 
Website: https://www.tomeofstars.net/

“Anemochory”, from the botanical term for wind-borne seed dispersal, forms the fourth Item of “Tome of Stars” and serves as a metaphor for the poet’s most desolate phase. It consists of fifteen sonnets of emotional scattering, spiritual disorientation, and theological anguish.

“Infernitum” renders personal grief as metaphysical damnation. The sonnet reframes the emotional devastation of the poet’s lost love not as metaphor but as literal torment, an unceasing state of psychological hell, marked by betrayal, endless longing, and spiritual fragmentation. Rather than positioning the pain as a momentary phase of mourning or heartbreak, the poem casts it as a cosmic sentence: not just a single loss, but a loop of eternal recurrence. Structured in formal diction but steeped in visceral imagery, the sonnet collapses time, memory, and identity into a singular, claustrophobic vision of suffering without end.

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Lyrics

Ourselves betrayed, we let our union die;  
Each chose to sever hearts that once loved true.  
In agony, time crawls while spirits writhe,
Each moment pain eternal without you.

Is this Gehenna where I’ve ever roamed,  
Slow-damned to anguish in a life of loss? 
To wander, warped, insane, without a home,  
A hollow ghost forever tempest-tossed?

Hell’s depths run deep, and deeper still descend,
For time is vast, and demons hone their art.  
Each plague of pain, cruel torment without end, 
Eternity to tear a mind apart.

Their leisure infinite, their pleasure slow—
Relive. Relive! Relive your loss below.

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Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

Infernitum

What are we without friends?
Just individuals with our own ends.
Who has your back when you need it?
Only a friend (Only a friend)

It's great to be in solitude,
be a hermit, untroubled. (You know you are too)
But when shit comes to your door,
Who you going to cry out for?

Friends. (None calls the police)

They may no be great at conversation,
treat it like a transfer of information.
Once you realise this,
You just cannot resist. (do not resist)

Finding them
Looking out for people of like minds,
Knowing your not alone, (You're not alone)
but being part of the hive.

Just....
Just do not disappear.
Do not forget yourself,
Or why you are here. (join us)

Friends.

You need them more than you know,
They are the ones, (the only ones)
That will have your back,
In the coming shit show. (It's a shit show)

“There are many different kind of friends.
Work ones.
Neighbor ones,
bumped into the street ones.
But the ones you need to stick beside,
are the ones that were by your side
For your entire life.”

Friends will help you out of your shit,
Real ones wont start it,
They will have your back and you have theirs.
Just be there when no one else cares. 
(Real friends don't go anywhere).

Friends...

They are not always there for conversation,
more like a transfer of information.
Once you realise this,
You just cannot resist. (Do not resist)

Finding them
Looking out for people of like minds,
Knowing your not alone, (You're not alone)
but being part of the hive

There will be times you will find yourself alone
New places, new situations, new locations.
Do not worry friend, (be at peace)
People of a feather flock together.

As introverted as you might be, (they still see you)
There are people you will see,
as your trusted friends, (and they will be)
Yes they will be with you to the end. (hold your hand my friend)

Friends,

as helpful as some maybe,
as dark as others appear to be, (ignore them)
know that both will help you in someway,
To raise your brow to a new today.

Friends

XEternal Cyclic

Old Souls

Threads

Bloodlust

With Eyes Ever Turned Inward

KILL THE LYCAN-Cronus

The Night God Slept Redux

Depths II Redux

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