View RSS Feed

Halls of the Dark Muse

Moon from a Child's View

Rate this Entry
Moon from a Child's View

A half-moon
crooked in the sky
I wonder why?

It hangs in the balance
as if about to fall
at the slightest movement
how does it stay?

It seems forever to
dim and darken
soon it is to go out
blotted from the sky
who will change the
moons light?

It appears a bent nail
the reapers scythe
pearl of illusion
love and life-death
how does it survive?

Enthroned it watched
it must grow weary
for it begins to slip gradually
who watches it?

Bent-backed
continuing to decline
it becomes an old woman
but who will keep it?

No surely the world
has gone blind
while its life was snuffed
will no one mourn?

But as a new born infant
a spark-a burst brought
forth and gradually
from all fours it rises
is that the moon again?

Updated 03-03-2009 at 04:57 PM by Dark Muse

Categories
My Poetry

Comments

  1. mtpspur's Avatar
    I kept looking at the title. Dark Muse and a child's view?! Ii have grown attached to your quicky personality and insights which the more I read the more pathos I discover but a child's view. This will be a voyage of discovery. Green cheese, griining old bald guys--let's not go there. First off second to last verse. Mourn not morn. Now none of my children would ever be this questioning but I saw the spraks of the child like wonder and it has that DM stamp of awe and wonder about it. Sgh I have lost my fear of you and think you are marvellous and optismistic. Especially knowing you LOVED the Three Musketters which means you probably read Captain Bood once upon a time. By the by the sequels Twenty Years After, and Vicomte deBragalonne are worth reading though Louise del a Valierre is tedious before getting to Man in the Iron Mask. Agree you completely about Athos and I came to really dislike Aramis.
  2. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Hehe thank you. I was always drawn to the moon and found it beautiful and mystifying. As soon as I can get to the bookstore I plan on picking up a copy of Twetny Years After.

    I am not quite sure I would go as far to call myself optimistic.