Why Blame Me A, Blood Moon Poem by Seema Jayaraman

Why Blame Me A, Blood Moon

Rating: 4.9


©Seema Jayaraman, Mumbai 3Oct2015
A magnificent 'gandharva' wedding
Planned in the night sky
Sun, and Moon in groom's attire,
Earth bedecked as Bride

destiny wove in good humor,
a velvety dark blue tapestry
and built a celestial altar
studded with bodies heavenly

arrangements, centuries in making
declared a rare sight,
several luminaries, orchestrating
a visual spectacle bright

With autumn season chosen
the equinox for A 'muharat
Planned on a Sunday night
the day of harvest arrived

Seers and the priests, forecasting
As visionaries, bad omens it augurs
predicting an apocalypse, impending
where none or Earth survives

Down on earth Men of wise
wrangled front seat invitations
to witness mysteries of nature
unobscured in a clear sky

Moon being slight in demeanor,
to impress the discerning bride
Puffed his chest, to perigee
crowned himself a Supermoon

Sun knowing his vast stature and size
arrogance over his might
Assumed the center of universe,
for the would be impressionable bride

In hand, a star spangled garland
dame earth coyly at Sun, glanced
then she swayed a wee bit closer
to the widely beaming Moon

As she closed the gap,
earth so deeply shy,
On Moon's face,
cast a deep red dye

Moon all with pride,
did a crimson blush
deep auburn in hue,
Moon was all aflush

Earth made her choice,
that flaming romantic night
with moon in offing a duet
And they came so close,

as Moon bent low, a bow
to place a kiss on earth's brow
with the magic of the moment
In the light of a pyre

Sun showered blessings,
the ever gallant knight
cast all colors of sunrise
the marriage was solemnized

The doomsayer's went on
with their tongues a quibble
waggled their fingers
and proclaimed the dire

they blamed the poor Moon
and called him a Blood Moon,
For luring damsel Earth, beware
for a poor choice she made

they said the warm shade
On Moon's face, portends
future wars, to be fought
By their seeds

On Earth's surface
Days for Men numbered
Fight o'er ill gotten gains
will end in disastrous means

While the newly weds,
stole a moment of eternity
consummated their togetherness
an elopement, on milky white

such was a wedding, that happened
Seen by the romantic's inner eye
a story of love unrecognized
By the poor blind men on earth
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Copyright ©Seema Jayaraman, Mumbai 3Oct2015 All Rights Reserved

Saturday, October 3, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: universe
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Based on the Lunar Eclipse which occurred on Oct 1st,2015 during a full moon called Supermoon when Moon was closest to Earth, the last and fourth in a series of tetrad lasting two years of this special mysterious occurrence. As the lunar eclipse developed, earths shadow cast a deep red orange color on the moon's face, which triggered this story. While many were busy finding hidden doomsday messages I was compelled to see a different romantic view - signaling in from the moon, which gives us hope for a happy healthy world. Could have polished this poem a little but have posted in a hurry lest I lose its originality.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
purnima santhakumar 04 October 2015

The earth, the moon and the sun- a very beautifully romantic visualisation

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Seema Jayaraman 04 October 2015

Thanks Purni, Yes I was greatly inspired by the beauty of the Moon that night and dreamt of a different perspective.. a lil fanciful.. but luvd dreaming the scenarios.

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M Asim Nehal 05 October 2015

Outstanding poem, great imagery, nice rhythm and even without the note by the poet, the poem elevates the readers imagination to the highest level of thinking. Following two verses left me speechless........100 out of 10. On Earth's surface Days for Men numbered Fight o'er ill gotten gains will end in disastrous means While the newly weds, a moment of eternity consummated their togetherness an elopement, on milky white

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Seema Jayaraman 05 October 2015

Thank you and appreciate your sparing the time and overwhelmed by your vote.. just when I think I have exhausted my small creative kitty of writing long lyrical meaningful poetry and fill my time experimenting with Haiku's out pop's a poem which even surprises me by its theme and arrangement. thank you.

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Edward Kofi Louis 09 October 2015

Down on earth; with the muse of mankind. Nice work.

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Suresh Kumar Ek 03 September 2020

a real cosmic poem.wonderful

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Kishore Kumar Das 21 March 2016

your visualisation is superb....a novel concept of celestial marriage as viewed from the earth...

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Rajesh Thankappan 07 March 2016

A celestial story woven with threads of vivid imagination which propel the reader into another universe. Wonderful!

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Akhtar Jawad 11 February 2016

Heard this beautiful poem in her own voice at facebook and now reading it here. It's an amazing description.

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Swapna Fernandez 24 January 2016

nicely penned mam.... thanks for sharing....

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