Mare Sirenum Poem by Barry Middleton
Mare Sirenum
darkest lunar isle
so beautiful the song
remote alluring
fantastic
an hypnotic call
ever seducing men
to chemistry of loneliness
expanse of silver
tarnished
with elusive dreams
desire
a noble illusion
a plutonian glow
remote
unreal
a fragmentary rock
a siren's tune
emboldens youth
with oceanic vision
but all of time
bestows on age
an earthbound
tender wisdom
for tethered dreams
and lower orbits
an earnest kiss to silence
archetypal memory
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4/24/2024 1:50:05 AM # 1.0.0.1119
expanse of silver tarnished= I do not understand the place of ''silver'' here, Barry.//It sounds wisefull and sensitive.
Oh yes, I see it now.It sounds me beautiful.
The expanse of silver is the moon, the moon's color. The mare sirenum is a crater of the moon. The moon, which is associated with love, is calling men like a siren. But age and wisdom teach us to seek lower orbits, more realistic challenges of love.