Moongazing
Moon
Silver
sliver of
fascination
Her slow turn tango
across a black dance floor
No partner, save the sun’s light
No audience, save one wistful
woman gazing heavenward, wishing
this divine song would play on forever
© 2013 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons; permissions granted by photographer, Dori
Hedgewitch at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads offered up a form challenge: the etheree. It’s a form I can handle… one syllable, two syllables… on up to ten. You can even take ten, go back to nine, and down to one to for a reverse or double etheree (ethefour?!).
The extra challenge was to make it ethereal as well. To me, there is nothing as ethereal as the moon in all her phases, whether obscured by wisps of clouds or viewed on a stark, clear night. Hope you enjoyed mine! For others, click HERE. Also linked to Poets’ United’s Poetry Pantry, where we all come out to play with words and thoughts. Peace, Amy
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kaykuala
The moon with all its romance and mysteries for mortals who care. And you did care Amelita! Great Poem!
Hank
Sharp Little Pencil
I was waxing (and waning?) Shakespearean in the first draft, but then I settled down and got real. And yes, not all mortals care, you are so right. Thanks, Hank!
Marian
oh, so lovely. good one.
Kerry O'Connor
I love it Amy! The slow tango, without a partner but the Sun… and the wistful woman just finishes off to perfection.
Sharp Little Pencil
Kerry, thanks so much. Thought you’d dig the tango! Amy
mybeautfulthings
So sorry to read your comment above re racist comments as I come in to say how much I love this ethereal etheree. I wish I had know of this form when I was teaching English! All my classes loved reading and writing poetry with me and we always had a Poet-tree in the classroom, an enormous winter tree shape which, by the end of the summer term, was covered in leaves, each one with a poem on – loved found poems and those written by my pupils.
I love how you use all sorts of forms and shapes and ideas. You are an inspiration to me to start writing for myself again! 🙂
Sharp Little Pencil
What a lovely thing to say. I subscribe to your blog, and, even though I don’t comment much, I always read.
Teachers are wonderful – and teachers who encourage creativity (which leads to flexibility of mind and critical thinking skills as well as an appreciation of beauty and the arts) ROCK. Therefore, YOU rock, my dear. I love the idea of the Poet-tree. Hope other teachers will read your comment and do the same… in the meantime, I’m going to pass this idea around in the public schools of Madison. Maybe you’ll write a poem about the Poet-tree and accompany it with a picture sometime.
Thanks again for your kind words. Peace, Amy
Sara v
Wow Amy!! Outdid yourself here–this is fabulous–luna-tastic 🙂
Sharp Little Pencil
Ha ha, more like “looney-tastic”! Thanks so much, Sara. Peace, Amy
Sherry Blue Sky
OMG so sorry about the haunting. Sigh. I love this poem very much and the form intrigues me. I havent tried one. I might just.
Sharp Little Pencil
You would do well with this one, I think, Sherry. Yeah, that person dried up and blew away, no worries!
Mary
Amy, this is one of your best, I think. The moon DOES tango alone…even though the sun is in the picture. The moon requires no audience. Her dance is always beautiful…and those who do happen to witness it appreciate it greatly!
Sharp Little Pencil
Thank you so much, Mary. You are so right about the audience, and I stand in awe at every phase of the moon. Sun and moon, the oddest dancing partners, stages apart, and yet always in tandem. Thanks again, Amy
brian miller
makes for a rather beautiful divine song eh? the moon is def quite the inspiration…the slow turn tango on the black dance floor…i like that amy
Sharp Little Pencil
Brian, that tango line (came out of the prompt to be “ethereal”) seems to have been quite the hit. Thanks, hon! Amy
vandana
So nice and enchanting
Suzy
I love the moon too. Something so mystical and magical about it. Lovely poem.o
Lisa A.Williams
Stunning! “no audience, save one wistful woman gazing heavenward…..” I love to gaze at the moon in that black sky, very similar feeling to watching the sea. Just beautiful!
Sharp Little Pencil
YES! Lisa, you are so right. The sea above and the sea below; never thought of it that way. Guess the difference is that we can touch the sea, and we long to touch the stars… Thank you so much for this compliment, much appreciated. Amy
http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com
Perfect, Amy. Every lovely word of it.
Sharp Little Pencil
Why, thank you, Viv! What a lovely comment. Amy