Lyric Poem · Family
The Smallest Star
You weigh less than the groceries,
you can't control your hands,
and yet the whole house orbits you:
the smallest star commands.
We used to schedule mornings;
now mornings are decreed.
Rule gently, tiny sovereign —
we're yours. We're all agreed.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Smallest Star
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Family, Happiness, For Kids
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Lines run 6-8 syllables (median 7). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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Text, source & rights
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Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Smallest Star, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 9be4bb0ccf1b0d2b…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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