The Moon
Omens! She travelled with me, and Night has brought her feisty perfume: The white, pure and smiling moon - Her porcelain veil always wrentching me.
I dare to look, but ought not to. And cannot. And so I too dare to look away. I bring myself inside, fleeing from the fray - It’s a small death, a slip of door, a going-home.
- but I give up. For she plays a music Of thunder from cloudless storm. Such caressable, impossible form Ought not to be, but is indeed.
A kiss is but a circumlocution, A euphemism, a many worded unword! And I am swallowed by the abyss Of a stream in motion that takes me away by being Beauty beyond reason, Or by trick of dream: Overflowing to the realm of the real.
So I dare to look.
And so, the bright glimering light, Dancing still on the smooth and gentle night. Looks back, and lo and behold, She might love poetry, and she might not. Though she shines overwordly, By having light shed on upon her, And by sheding light Upon the blackness of endless void. Blooming the white of her eyes, The perfect angle - there it is. And O, there is so much light. But O, she brings fright and blight, Dooming me, seeing me.
But O, there is darkness too. And O, the darkness too is bright, Shining in her ungodly way. Tempting uncommon words Errors so great that they become right.
And O, alas, twist of fate, She does not look at all, For I mistake beauty For a gaze, and what might Have we been - A mutual gaze, Coloured in splendid tomorrow, For only such a shining colour must be: Splendid'morrow.
But the day will come And the moon shall speak again.











