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Open Poetry #39

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Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2006-11-09 09:05 AM

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How to explain
What effect
That gibbous moon

Its stolid light
Upon the Earth
Without comment
Or alarm

The old man carries on
Though nothing seen
Is ever new

His orbit a habit
Grown over time

A certain sadness
In how he moves

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Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

1 posted 2006-11-09 09:21 AM

Well writ.

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

2 posted 2006-11-09 10:43 AM

Oh, now, I love this John !
Placing it gently into my library to read again and again...
hugs, Chris

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2006-11-09 06:26 PM

Enjoyed...James

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2006-11-09 08:25 PM

wow

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

5 posted 2007-04-25 01:45 PM

the moon, the old man, "his", "he" could be all the same thing, or could be different.

"his" could be moon
"He" could be the old man.

whatever I read, it is a poem about aging.

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