A Blue Moon New Year's Eve
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Jan. 1, 2010
for Laura Loo's Favorite Free Verse (not for contest)
(This was one of my first free verse poems posted at Soup.
It's the only one I can find that was not entered into a contest
and it was not seen by many people, for I was a new member then!)
Finally prepared for bed and noticing
the year was now precisely 2 hours and 30 minutes old,
there occurred to me a thing that I’d forgot.
I hadn’t gone outside
to see the talked-about Blue Moon.
With bare feet, I stepped onto the icy floor boards of our deck,
quickly took a peek,
but could not spy the moon!
Scrambling to the front (this time in shoes),
I stood out by the sidewalk and
let my senses take in what I saw. . .
banks of crisp new snow around me;
some houses down the street still glittering
with multi-colored strands of season’s cheer;
in front of me, familiar mountain slopes
that seemingly loomed closer
in the stillness of this night.
It seemed as if the sky, a hazy blue,
had taken in the soft white of the snow,
reflecting back to me a picture-perfect moment
of a most wondrous dream-like winter’s eve.
I scanned the sky once more,
then turned and walked back to my porch.
not too disappointed that
the moon I’d sought
had eluded me.
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2010
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