Today's poet

[Old Whippet]

Well the moon seems to have featured large this month ....

Remember the new moon
The evening star close by
Centred above the silhouette lines of fir trees?
Nearly symetrical and almost too corny to paint.
We ran that night weightless
Daring fate and unaware of the storm brewing
That left us stricken, near lifeless.

That same moon fully grown
Bloated and yellowing
Sneered at the wreckage below.

It's all but gone now.
Retreating. Hiding to be reborn.
Invisible yet present.
Powering the tides and propelling the waves
That erase, cleanse and renew.
Without destruction there can be no rebuilding
Without death, no ressurection.

[freckle]

regarding above poetry genius....and the author mr modesty?
how good is this OW? well done and thank you for posting!

[freckle]

Oh dear, was planning on a 4pm run, shopping and tree hunting scuppered that one...now I have just had a croissant with a cuppa, so, its looking like a 7pm headtorcher in the mist.....wonder if I'll manage to see the moon somewhere?....hope so.....

according to this
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch...on/phases.html
i should see a waxing crescent if I am lucky!......oooooooo

The freedom of the moon
Robert Frost

I've tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I've tried it fine with little breadth of luster,
Alone, or in one ornament combining
With one first-water start almost shining.

I put it shining anywhere I please.
By walking slowly on some evening later,
I've pulled it from a crate of crooked trees,
And brought it over glossy water, greater,
And dropped it in, and seen the image wallow,
The color run, all sorts of wonder follow.

[freckle]

e e cummings....

who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves

(sorry still a bit moon mad.....)

[Derby Tup]

thin sliver of moon
grins down onto frozen fields
Hope my battery lasts!

[freckle]

thin sliver of moon
grins down onto frozen fields
Hope my battery lasts!

Ooooooooooo......lovely

[Harry H Howgill]

Moon River

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

J Mercer

[stevefoster]

Moon River

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

J Mercer

Love that song HHH

[Harry H Howgill]

Love that song HHH

[freckle]

Awwwwww...isn't she just gorge....very elfin!.....might wear those glasses on sunday for simonside!.......love the song, just listening as I type....off to see if i can see the little dreamer myself in a minute.....