and we are both bad astronomers

Love the winding conversation and interesting introspective narrator in this silvernight! Finding the logical leaps the narrator is making from the question "why do we wish on stars" to "that's not how stars work" is really interesting and sort of mimics the constellations in how it jumps from thought to thought.

Trying to parse out what the metaphors are alluding to is fun and I think you could take it many different way - I'm interpreting the narrator as someone who desperately wants to be seen as something important / exciting like a galaxy but instead sees themselves as a "black-hole / mystery" so they love the compliment that the subject made to them about the galaxies, and yet they can't seem to accept it all of this wedged into a conversation about star-gazing. So the main theme I saw was self-doubt maybe.

The picture on the side adds and isn't distracting, and I also like the choice to align the last couplet to the right so that the jump in logic is exaggerated even more.

Lovely poem, thank you for sharing!

alliyah

Hey, IMK here.

It's been a while since I last reviewed, so I'm a bit rusty.

First of all, I really love the formatting! I love the way you set the stars up, and my first impression was "Wow, pretty!!" so I think you did great on the presentation front.

I really liked the word choice and how you stuck to the "Bad Astronomers" theme, i think it went really well here.

In the second to last line in the third stanza, is that a typo? "A promise that someone is looking for through a telescope", is that supposed to be "A promise that someone is looking for you through a telescope"? or is it something else entirely?

I really enjoyed what seemed to me to be a slight romantic subtext, and how the narrator seems a little shy.

Well, signing off,
IMK

Hello, this is Kelisot for a review.
I first liked your summary (or bio? what is it called?) of you complaining that it was hard to find Polaris. I liked the sense of humor and joke at the start, as it not only caught my interest but also gave me a laugh.

I am unsure if the poetry is yours, but I found the first stanza interesting. Often in poetry, you rarely use quotation marks, but it was an interesting choice for you to use them. I can assume as I continue reading the poetry, the story takes place during stargazing between two people, but the poetry's narration is only from one person's perspective.

I enjoyed the choice of words used, as they still go with your astral/stellar theme by using words like "galaxy" "black hole" "constellation" etc. Despite the humorous title, in the beginning, the poetry has a more serious mood, and possibly some romance behind it too? I'm not saying that the change of mood was bad, I thought it was a good idea.

I also like the pictures with constellations. I'm not 100% sure what type of dipper the constellation is, but assuming it was Ursa Minor, Polaris is on the tip. But I'm not an astral human, so I'll just leave it up to everyone else.

In conclusion, I enjoyed your poetry! I'll expect some other more poetries that I may continue enjoy reading