Mike Martin Poet Ballad

Blue Moon

Once in a blue moon
The stars align my way
It always starts out looking
Like it’s going to be my day

I thought I’d take a picture
And then decided no
That would just be foolish
How would anybody know

And so I took a hike instead
Out where the buffalo roam
A lovely maiden called for me
But of course I wasn’t home

I went out to a prairie dance
Got drunk on railroad gin
As I snored a brakeman’s dream
They say my ship came in

I wasn’t there so that’s all fair
They say you snooze you loose 
The next blue moon will be here soon
And I’ll lay off the booze

                             Copyright © Mike Martin 2015

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Edlynn Nau August 25, 2015 at 12:48 PM FUN! A Blue Moon is two full moons in the same month and that happens once every three years, so get ready!

Ovidiu Bocsa July 31, 2015 at 3:01 AM Blue moon of a blues ,as dancing with you, in a poem that grew in the poets soul.