Moons Poems

Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges

I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails  
the scent of soil and citrus on your skin.  
You carried mysteries-living things  
I wanted to cradle.

I didn’t find you-  
you found

Many Moons

Echo of distant cries,
quadruped steps deepening into dusk—
wind folding the earth’s breath.
Craftsman of the spider web,
seas of lightning possessing the sky.

Guardian of the other side,
conceiver of comings and goings,
I will meet you soon—
after the waning of many moons,
God-willing—I will meet you soon! 

Til then 
you will wait—
til the fateful rain washes the earth,
til the sky

Speech Impediments, Moons and Spoons

There once was a girl from the south
Who had a hard time with her mouth
Boy with same issue said, (S)"poon!"
She said, "Not poon! We say,  "poon!"
Correcting his speech without doubt.


 To thin girl we constantly had to say, 
"Pull up your pants, the moon shines not in day!"
She noticed my shirt, cut

Inner Tides and Outer Moons

Inner Tides and Outer Moons

Just like Earth and her moon
Our own body-mind fluxes 
With and within the cycle of tides.
Up-down, strong-weak, high-low
We swell and contract in a rhythm 
That effects if not controls us all.

Maybe it’s even what makes us care
About others and what others think of us
Since without the flux
We’d be more consistent
And so

Dark Moons

I've been to the well
Too often to tell
The sky from a spell
Of ice salted dunes
Of threadbare cocoons
If there's a contrast
From future to past
The light sees it last

I breathe the allure
Of spaces obscure
Of nights darkly pure
Who else can I be
If I am not me
To straddle the sea
And follow the moon's
Melancholy tunes

Our Moons Unite

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Line Gauthier


We tripped to the moon
On our honeymoon
Up up and away in a balloon 
With each passing star, we swoon
As twinkling faces croon
On top of the world forever attune

New Moons

Moon spills over like expresso coffee, 
withheld in a pitch pitcherlike corset —

Where long her skin's lantern once mothered me,
over tonight are but marble shadows,

Craters' paled apparition in my sky —
those cold breasts now an invisible blur;

This adrenaline dark when light's in wane,
virgin drinks in her cup's phase finally;

Still through a kohl tongue she kisses

Dandelion Suns to Moons

‘Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.’ – Vladimir Nabokov

The humble dandelion Earth bequeaths.
Oh, golden bloom which ancient lore bequeaths
that fortune ‘s woven into bridal wreaths.

The dandelion turns from sun to moon.
A dandelion morphs from sun to moon 
for wishes cast so young and old may swoon.

The Shepherd’s Clocks are pacing march

moons glow

snow's mirror image 
moons glow reflects off white snow 
picture perfect scene

Essence of Moons

"essence of moons"

moons brilliantly glow
we dance within her arms
love grows evermore

together as one
such is our silhouette
rising to powers

illumination
a lasing merry go round
passions design

as moons shift and hide
under bright warm suns
such essence still remains

SkyWatcher
10-13-23

How Much Do I Love You

How much do I love you?
Is there a limit to my loving you or to loving at all?
My love for you does not need an invitation
It is spontaneous like glamorous laughter
It is not seduction or addiction
It is not out of sympathy or empathy
It is my heart yearning to become one with yours—
One that cannot cease

Half Moons

It’s the curse of the bent over plumber
Those who look say “Oh what a bummer”
It’s so silky and white
It must glow in the night
Hope it tans by the end of summer

©5/5/2023

Blue Moons

Blistering and scorching sands
  Land of the hushed and crushed hands
Up the creepy furs clasping 'round
  Ebbing scraped sand of ants' mound

Mortars of the deep and steamy skies
  O'er peals and dreamy flies
Off the reef passerine of stormy glides entreat
  New leaf flit, strength above my feet...

Sunsets tweak, marvels at its

Moons Chasity

“The moon’s vision of humanity 
Was something that it once desired  
Tinkle, swoouf, it pondered  
As it’s luminescence gazed at its prodigious oceans  
The defunct dissection of the body fell into silence as it glanced back
Clish, clash, it wavered  
It’s fluorescence gestured odiously 
Enraging it’s radiance with envy 
Woosh, clasps, oceans

I Shall Tweak the Moons Nose

I believe I shall tweak the moon’s nose, she said to us all.
We thought it was hilarious. A toddler, she was a doll.
I will do it in my dreams tonight, she said. I hope I don’t fall.
We laughed at her tale, it was whimsical and tall.

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