Moonscape
Evening drifts into twilight's mist
As the golden sun goes down,
Upon the shore the waves persist
The dying sun, but a fading crown.
Golden orb of night's delight
Peeks out far beyond the sea,
In rhythmic sways the waves recite,
The song her shape causes them to be.
The night is but a melody
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Categories:
moonscape, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Moonscape
Moonscape
In the cemetery there are twelve thousand dead.
They fought and died for Paschendale.
Such slaughter took place.
One hundred and forty thousand Allies are missing.
Fighting and dying in a foreign land,
in a town that looks like a moonscape.
Obliterated.
Nothing left.
Pieces of bodies being found today:
German, British and French.
Indistinguishable from each other except by one thing:
death.
The war to
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Categories:
moonscape, anger, death, history, military,
Form: Free verse
Moonscape Amber Eyes
Night is
A black cat with
Moonscape amber eyes
Walking gently
Across the
Blue silhouette
Sky
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Categories:
moonscape, imagination
Form: Free verse
Moonscape: Alma Marries the Universe
Alma marries the Universe
All the planets would receive a special wedding invitation
Pluto, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Earth, Jupiter, and the Sun.
The North star would be the maid of honor
The God of the Universe would be their best man
They would get married in the House of Gemini
It was a May-December romance
For Alma was 33 and
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Categories:
moonscape, naturewedding, wedding, universe,
Form: Light Verse
Tranquil Moonscape
hidden Moon valley
where endless lake greets Earth rise
peace between planets
_______________________
for Raul's Reflections contest
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Categories:
moonscape, nature
Form: Haiku