Routes Laid Out by Heavenly Bodies
The road of the moon
on the water
is a bridge
between us
leading me
to our new self.
When I am ready
to return
to what I was
before you,
that road
has vanished
but the sun
lights a different
pathway
and sends my shadow
ahead like a door
I seek to enter.
The oldest moon,
the sun at its birth
or just before its death
create in us
just the suggestion
of a road.
That is why we rise early
for the sunrise,
gather for the sunset,
spill old blood,
howl howl
at the open moon.
This poem meets both prompts today. The NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a poem about a bridge. and the WordPress prompt was “When the full moon happens, you turn into a person who is the opposite of who you normally are. Describe this new you.”
Meaningful contrast of sun and moon. Well written.
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I love it! It speaks to that bridge of crossing that I never realized was there. Very cool!
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BEAUTIFUL.
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your words there tall, an epic tale the more read your words prevail in truth in beauty there only scale Thank you for this awesome tale
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