Sunday, May 18, 2008

Orange Moonlight

The poetic push has come to shove
not writing because of love
which I suppose makes it less
worth reading

I'm sure they saw the orange moon
those ancient poets, new ones too
rising full in eastern evenings
like tonight

I would walk to where you are
long through the night
past barking dogs
and lone passing cars

I would

6 comments:

polona said...

there are different kinds of love and all are justified
i love (there you have it!) the images this creates

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

"i love (there you have it!) the images this creates"
Polona stole my line! :)
(I really do like it.)

Kai said...

beautiful, steve

Pat Paulk said...

How could one not love in orange moonlight?? I love it too!!

hedymichel said...

This is my favorite....so far.

Heather

steve said...

Wow - I had forgotten - thank you for finding this one. It does pull up a certain image and feel.