drinking alone, Li Bai converses with Moon and Shadow
Li Bai, his Shadow, & the Moon [Haiku]
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Moonlit Sea [Haiku]
Moon Viewing [Haiku]
POEM: Moonlight Mystery [PoMo Day 13 – Ghazal]
I saw a silhouette in the moonlight, a man who plodded snow that glowed moonlight. I was mesmerized by the vagabond -- a night-owl nomad moving by moonlight. What'd take me out into that night's cruel cold, seeing only what shone in the moonlight? A deadly urgent case must be afoot, a riddle solved solely in harsh moonlight. But maybe there's no beauty like the moon, and maybe no light flatters like moonlight. If so, the cold must be some puny stakes against the milky glow of brisk moonlight. And so I pull on boots and tug a hat to venture out amongst the pale moonlight. And seeing night as did that wanderer, I know the virtue life finds in moonlight.
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Sun & Moon Haiku
orange sunset,
casting the lake afire,
cooling to dusk
gibbus moon,
fooling so many souls
who thought you full
shadows thin
as the sun creeps higher
then fatten
tugging seas,
the moon’s unseen hand
is at work
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Cold Moon Haiku
cold white circle
deformed in its reflection
upon black waters
howling lunatics
don’t make me fearful,
quiet ones do
glowing clouds
streaked thinly through the sky
moon’s canvas
silent evil
slid through night, watched over
by a cold moon
the moon is out
my bones have gone cold
i blame it not
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POEM: Mythic Moonlight
faces glow in mythic moonlight
a world away from here
you may ask what makes it mythic?
the stories that one hears
a young son regales his mother,
who hangs on every word,
with a tale of lunchtime mayhem
and food covertly hurled
two lovers chat about a dream
that one of them just had
about a few stolen moments,
in an alien crash pad
and an old man tells a young one,
he’s not afraid to die
how he left his fear in a field
with a piece of his thigh
so many people share one moon
focal point of their stares
souls unload a bit of burden
from the heft of their cares
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Moon Haiku
day moon
subdued but looming
soon gone
sliver moon
crescent vanishing
hanging lure
mountain moon
lighting valleys
show my trail
shadowless
til milky moonlight
spills the clouds
nitid moon
you must’ve been resplendent
but I slept
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DAILY PHOTO: Moon Over Bangkok
Taken in September of 2014 in Bangkok
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DAILY PHOTO: Moon Over Incheon Airport, Seoul
Moon over Incheon
Sitting in the terminal at twilight, waiting to catch a flight to Phnom Penh, I watched the moon rise.
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