Before the sky claimed them, they were only a man and a woman
two mortals foolish enough to love
The gods took pity on no one.
He became the Red Man Sun,
a blazing titan shackled to the sky,
forced to rise each morning for a world
that feeds on his fire
but denies him freedom.
His heat once warmed her skin in the autumn wind
now it burns him alive from the inside,
She became the Blue harvest Moon,
cold with grief,
the long dark nights she brings light autumn is gone
her love lingers on
She chases him endlessly,
a breath too late
he rises and she falls
As the full blue harvest moon chases the autumn sun
awaiting an eclipse
A glimpse of their love that once was
the sky itself is their prison
Still, they reached for each other
forever almost touching,
forever denied.
The Red Man Sun.
The Blue harvest Moon.
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did you see it?
good luck to you
take a sound recording of the gurgling under the kitchen sink
if you play that backwards you will find
it is an interpretation of an inversion
play it back and forth
it's actually Beethoven's 5th.
like Smoke on the Water
in an encouraging interview, the guitar player
was both humble and forthcoming
my son in his music lessons
will listen to samples of classical music
selected by the teacher
i've encouraged him to ask as the piece ends
to raise his hand and say,
'now play that backwards.'
—When Art Bows—
Five hundred years have gaz’d into her eyes,
while Leonardo’s hush hath conquered Time;
her lambent secret, veiled beneath the skies,
hath drawn the world to deem her smile sublime.
Within the Louvre’s husht, cathedral air,
where myriad souls have hung upon her gaze,
thy smile arose—and something stirred there,
as though the very light grew mad with blaze.
For hers is beauty steep’d in veiled desire,
a still, inscrutable enchantment’s art;
but thine—O rapturous, ambrosial fire!—
steals through my blood and ravisheth the heart.
Then did I learn what Time had hid from me:
she kept her smile five centuries—till thee.
"The moon is an honest Manipulator,"
last night you showed off with your total eclipse.
Your enormous bright light did,
"Tie me to your Tongue."
"I learned how to live unkissed,
until" last night.
Now "I filled the night's chalice with knots of desire,"
needing to wait for the next full moon.
"If time turns, will scars stain the sky?"
Will I live to see you next month in all your glory?
Oh look at the dark clouds for,
"It's raining roses and love riots."
Tonight was very special,
I am so glad I could join the full moon for our visit.
There are eclipses no sky records.
The kind that passes through the body
without warning~
a sudden dimming
of what I thought I understood.
Sometimes it’s a memory
sliding between me and the present,
blue-dark and familiar,
carrying its own gravity.
Sometimes it’s a silence
from someone I love,
a shadow cast across the heart
that makes everything else
go briefly still.
Curiosity rises in these moments~
not the bright kind,
but the quiet wondering
of what part of me
is being asked to change.
I’ve learned that human eclipses
aren’t catastrophes.
They’re thresholds.
They ask me to stand in the dimness
long enough to see
what the light was hiding.
And when the shadow moves on,
I don’t return to who I was.
I step into illumination,
carrying the shape of the dark
as part of my own orbit.
the sky goes dim
without a moon, without a sun~
just something unnamed
passing between me and myself:
a thought I didn’t expect,
a memory I didn’t invite,
a silence from someone I love~
each one capable of crossing my light.
eclipses aren’t endings.
they’re pauses,
brief shadows
teaching me to
carry brightness differently.
even grief has its orbit.
even doubt has its curve.
even the heart, startled by darkness,
keeps turning toward
whatever glow remains.
when the shadow finally moves on,
I see more clearly~
not because the light returned,
but because I survived its absence.
The world is not the sum of its rainbows,
nor the tally of its storms...
it is the vision carried in the soul,
the inward star or inward eclipse
that shapes each step.
Loving you has cost me all of my light
Your shadow overpowers my own will to fight
I can’t shine around you, “it wouldn’t be right”
Like the sun coming up in the middle of the night
We’re two raging bulls, we always butt heads
If I wove a tapestry, you’d pull on the threads
You’d try to control me but I’d rather be dead
No mother should tear her children to shreds
You’d pull on my petals just to glue it right back
I’d stay in my lane but you’d push me off track
You broke my heart open just to fill in the cracks
You tested my tolerance with every cold smack
I wanted your love.. but you wanted control
You raised a ‘strong girl’ at the cost of your soul
This love-hate dynamic has taken its toll..
You’re a mother who couldn’t play the motherly role
Shroud of eclipse,
Where murmurs are cloaked in velvet firmament,
And valor clings to breath held tight-
The cosmos halts in reverence.
Shroud of eclipse,
Where enigmas thrum within spectral gleam,
And destiny reweaves its primordial thread-
A lone ember dares awaken.
Shroud of eclipse,
Where umbral trials forge tempered spirits,
And hope is clad in dusk-wrought steel-
The precipice of metamorphosis.
Ascension of glory,
From the sable clasp of night emerges the soul,
Its vision refined in light's retreat-
A conflagration reborn.
Ascension of glory,
The veil unravels, the hush is shattered,
And triumph, sovereign and incandescent
Devours the vestiges of darkness.
crimson bloody rays
glass the dark water surface ~
minds in moral flames?
Singing but not enjoying,
Multiple keys I'm employing,
My voice subject to cracking,
My range just isn't tracking!
"Joyful noise" a misnomer,
Unsettled noise of a roamer,
Turn down my volume a lot!
My contribution is naught.
Maybe no one noticed me...
I'd like to duck out quickly,
But onward with the rejoicing,
But now I'm not really voicing.
Self-consciousness takes over,
What I need is a voice-over.
Or, maybe that built-in playback?
Yeah, that inaudible soundtrack!
Playing flawless in my head,
The singing is Spirit-led.
I can hit any and all notes,
And match any and all throats!
Bocelli? Chuck Berry? Sure!
Such rejoicing I can endure.
I'll just move my silent lips,
And Voila! A playback eclipse!
"Lord, I hope you're OK with that?
My singing keeps falling flat!
The Spirit can sing with the best,
Through playback, my spirit finds rest!"
To me, it appeared
the universe went weird.
Before it was done,
the moon blocked the sun.
It was absurd. No word was heard
from a bird.
I timed my departure to coincide with the
lunar eclipse, but the
eastern horizon wasn't apparent,
in the park, or at the top of the road
my local high points
I scanned the firmament along with
other rando hopefuls but there was
no show to see so
onwards and upwards we went
as wine of a deep red hue
wasn't going to
buy or drink itself
What does it mean to live a finite, fragile life in an infinite, indifferent universe? ~ Prof. Brian Cox.
As the Moon rises in the east
barely showing its face above the horizon
the Penumbral Eclipse takes form
heralding the full weight of the time
a new Shadow was about to be cast over me.
Dark has cloaked my deeds up until now.
The Blood Moon enchants with its splendour
and ultimately the reflected light from the Sun
is embraced by illuminated corners of my heart—
subdued, as it reflects tentative forgiveness
rewarding me for changing my ways.
I’m set in my ways.
I yearn for unconditional forgiveness
of the ingrained dark corners of my heart—
reflecting my own perception of me.
A Blood Moon stirs fear in the heart
as my darkly disturbing thoughts reveal secrets.
Old shadows are difficult to cast off—
taunted by the recall of lighthearted times.
When the Penumbral Eclipse faded
remorse latched onto the dark side
of the moon on its arc to set in the west.
my elegy-
my muse covered in death
my wistful cry for help
innocence in her eyes
her last words and hug with a embracing smile
promises made and promises fade
8th of november, when moon turned red
the curse would lift but my roses turned black
the great eclipse returned and claimed another laugh
death of me inside
my lover absquatulated me by that time
lost two souls
on and by-
november 8 and another goodbye
two different years but same eclipse
cursed my sky, stole its shine
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