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Starward-Led . . .

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I am privileged to have been called to be a Catholic Christian (however flawed and flabby is my soul), a call which began when I first noticed (before I was old enough for kindergarten) the large Crucifix on my Aunt and Uncle's living room wall (just above Grandma B.'s easy chair); and then again saw a Crucifix in the film, **Bride Of Frankenstein** (1935) which I first viewed, in part, on a Friday night---either the seventeenth or the twenty-fourth---in January, 1964.
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In my old-age, after this year's Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, realize that my new screen-name is an appellation---Starward-Led (or, in some poems, stylized as Starward*Led) has permanently relaced my c.b. handle, Starwatcher, itself the gift I was helped to receive by my First Beloved, BlueShift, just after dusk on Saturday, July 10th, 1976; but the precedent of Starwatcher has made the change to Starward-Led possible The new screen name originates as a phrase from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's epic poem, **King Arthur** (Book XI, stanza 125), and it is an escape from my mundane first name (which bullies amended to FairyJerry); and acknowledges my favorite Scriptures---Revelation 22:16, Matthew 2:2, 2 Peter 1:19 and Sirach 43:9-10; and then that Friday night/Saturday morning in July, 1974 when I was called, by name, outside by the Lord to view His stars. MY ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH IS THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE IN MY LIFE, when I am careful to acknowledge that. I hope to live long enough---if the Lord will so favor me---to see the entire year of 2027: its days and dates, beginning with March 1st, will correspond exactly to those of 1976---the most transformative year of my life. I pray that I may enjoy the personal significance of 2027 in full, to its very last night, as Starward-Led. I use several other names on this site: 'Anthropos' for certain Biblical poems; Kyakuchuu for poems in Asian forms, and Starward/J-Called/StarSpared/Januarian. These names, having been useful at one time, are subordinate to Starward-Led; following the example of the American Poet Nugator (1795 to 1851), who published his collected poems under his Latin appellation, but within its pages retained the use of subordinate pen names on some poems.
Some of the poems will bear the stylized signature, Starward*Led, in which the asterisk represents my very amateurish love of astronomy since that blessed incident on a Friday night/Saturday morning in July 1974.
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Constantine Cavafy's poem, "Very Seldom," describes my situation, and my hope for my Ad Astra poems.
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My Haigo (or Haiku name), Kyakuchuu, means "footnote" in Japanese.

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