Jul 2013
some rather dark nights
seems the moon's on vacation . . .
1.
Look, here comes courage
Dragging the moon in its teeth
While stars dapple in its tangled fleece
Go on, you!
Go and put the moon back up in the sky
Where it belongs
2.
Tenebrous nite falls on square
Yet a caged moon shines courageous slivers
Most haunting melodies
Then that dark figure appears
Trying to steal it away
With black birds flapping round him
Like a sombre halo over him
He slinks off into the welcoming shadows.
3.
Girl with long blonde plaits
sits on water-lily petal-pads
In the middle of a mild mere
Mauve moon lies tame in her still palms
But the wrong notes suddenly play out
Harmony not quite jacked up
4.
Elemental whirlpool explodes
As sceptred figures hunch in red dust
A flash of green sky
white elephants drown in shallow puddles
angels sit on the edge of blue teacups
while thoughts crisscross
and moon hops away
galaxial order pleased
put the moon back
where it belongs
let it hang there . . .
in the sky*
S T, 20 July 2013
seems the moon's on vacation . . .
1.
Look, here comes courage
Dragging the moon in its teeth
While stars dapple in its tangled fleece
Go on, you!
Go and put the moon back up in the sky
Where it belongs
2.
Tenebrous nite falls on square
Yet a caged moon shines courageous slivers
Most haunting melodies
Then that dark figure appears
Trying to steal it away
With black birds flapping round him
Like a sombre halo over him
He slinks off into the welcoming shadows.
3.
Girl with long blonde plaits
sits on water-lily petal-pads
In the middle of a mild mere
Mauve moon lies tame in her still palms
But the wrong notes suddenly play out
Harmony not quite jacked up
4.
Elemental whirlpool explodes
As sceptred figures hunch in red dust
A flash of green sky
white elephants drown in shallow puddles
angels sit on the edge of blue teacups
while thoughts crisscross
and moon hops away
galaxial order pleased
put the moon back
where it belongs
let it hang there . . .
in the sky*
S T, 20 July 2013
Just some moon-thoughts....written a few days ago.
Wonder if the moon is hostage to our orbit ... poor satellite.
Wonder if the moon is hostage to our orbit ... poor satellite.
