Night Sky Ball

Night Sky Ball

Like the wardrobe of the
fashionable woman of a
cosmopolitan world of
glamorous night-time attire
selecting a deep-blue velvet
gown and a perfect diamond
whose facets gleam and glitter
in the light of the fine-cut
crystal chandelier of the
vast ballroom, the envy of 
her female coevals, attracting 
admiring compliments from 
gallants, I praise the sky this 
becalmed late winter night, 
having changed her wardrobe 
from the splendid roseate glow
worn the night before, in favour
of the midnight-blue of this
moment, hosting a bright moon
and a diamant-dangling Venus.