O, yonder silvery ball where you go
Hark! Let me take a gold string
To tie you on to make a balloon of you
You are slippery, soft like an eel
But I’ll put you in a wooden frame
So everyone can touch and feel
You wink high above in dark skies
And rule the realm bedecked with stars
I’ll take a ladder to ascend and sip your liquid light
When you shine full and round
I’ll make a loop to capture you
To put on my neck a pedant newly found
Oft when you are in waxing crescent
I’ll set the table to put you in my soup
How to sup a carpel bright and luminescent!
Erstwhile you are behind a cloud’s veil
And the hearts long for your soothing light
I’ll paint you anew with a paintbrush and pail
These are beautiful words. Are you a moon child? Were you born in the astrological chart Cancer? I am one and know how I love the moon too. I even made a picture of the Mars one year when it was near to the earth. Funny, it is not special, just a ball of light in the night sky.
A lovely poem about the moon, and yes there is a child in all of us - thank goodness!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
i've added this to my poemlist. CARPEL.... a new word for me. meaning a plant part? as for the following line.................To put in my neck a pedant newly found............i would write at or on my neck, and i believe you want PENDANT, as it fits and pedant does not. i had to check definition of pedant also. there are too many words for one to know! ! ! ! ! and so many are so similar! thanks for sharing. and thanks for some rhyming.