blue-storm-encounters: moon

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2016-03-25

Moonrise

"We dance round in a ring and suppose,

But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."

― Robert Frost

2015-07-31

July's Blue Moon

Some things may have a chance of happening once in a life time ―

perhaps at the sacred hour of a Blue Moon rising.

2015-07-24

2015-05-11

2015-03-06

Ancestrally bound

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see

the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there

see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same

as never leaving.” — A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32)

— Terry Pratchett (1948 - 2015)

2015-02-03

Low ebb

At the low ebb

I traipse the rippled

Ocean ground -

reasons for being this vast

paradox state of [e]motion ―

swelling lashing spilling

peripeteia's leaving

intense elusive pervasive

incessantly persuasive

impermanent

(the one immutable thing)

and bound to return

by a single irresistible pull

of a distant

ever [r]evolving Moon

drawing near

"The essence is never the form."

2015-01-26

2014-09-10

September Harvest Moon

If September means seven

it must be the month of heaven. ~

2014-08-11

And the last is always the brightest. ~

_ _ _

"Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island" . . .

― Lynn Emanuel

2014-05-21

The picture within

"And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

They danced by the light of the moon." - Edward Lear

2013-11-17

"vanitas"

the days are cold here

i wrap myself in “vanitas”

the ultimate Versace that is

lately the fragrance of choice

feels soothing on my current skin

a balm to my tenuous
weary nerves

i shield inside this

ephemeral cloud of scented mist
out of all called vanity

how ironic?

uprooted once
and tossed at sea

how volatile one could be

even returning to my origin

my blood always missing the vein

failing to reach a vital
destin[y]-ation

repeatedly failing a life-
test in humility

the nights are much colder

even the full moon is frosty distant
[in]different from here

"love is our true destiny. we do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone -
but find it with another." - Thomas Merton

2013-10-21

October moon

There is not an apple

left in this apple tree

to pick by hand

and throw at you

but the full Moon

of mid-October ― rising
sun-ripe
delirious

2013-08-23

"luna lunera"

august grain moon that happened to be blue too -

. . ."i dream of lost
vocabularies that might express some of what
we no longer can." . . . - Jack Gilbert
from "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart"

2013-07-23

buck moon gazing

"we ran as if to meet the moon" - Robert Frost

2013-06-23

myth and desire

june perigee moon
myth and desire apogee
midsummer night's dream

a temporal lapse of ages
back in the pith beneath
my archaic skin

i leap bare into this fantasy
gulp the mead moon full
mellifluous-ripe

delirious -
presaged perhaps to sate
an ageless hunger

2013-05-25

may full [flower] moon

"her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance:
her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting
by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response
to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify,
to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage:
the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm:
the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas,
her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible."

James Joyce, Ulysses