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Moonlight
Have you heard the stars at night?
Or seen the earth as she spun upon the sea?
Or seen the earth as she spun upon the sea?
I have watched the sky erupt with galactic illumination
As a sun explodes with fiery purpose
And then grows cold as it shrinks into the waiting darkness.
I have felt my heart reach out to meet disdain
And then retreat beyond the horizon.
I have tasted bright pleasures and wondrous joy
As love surrounded and then encaptured
My soul with a word or a glance.
I have waited along the shoreline
For the women to pass by
And my love to wash ashore
And come slowly back to me.
I have known the comet as it streaked across heaven
And the meteor that fell from vagrant orbit
And plummeted to the ocean wave.
I have been alone, and not,
And joined barefoot girls
As they danced beneath the moonlight.
As a sun explodes with fiery purpose
And then grows cold as it shrinks into the waiting darkness.
I have felt my heart reach out to meet disdain
And then retreat beyond the horizon.
I have tasted bright pleasures and wondrous joy
As love surrounded and then encaptured
My soul with a word or a glance.
I have waited along the shoreline
For the women to pass by
And my love to wash ashore
And come slowly back to me.
I have known the comet as it streaked across heaven
And the meteor that fell from vagrant orbit
And plummeted to the ocean wave.
I have been alone, and not,
And joined barefoot girls
As they danced beneath the moonlight.
Copyright Lisa Jain Thompson
August 10, 1997
August 10, 1997
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