Shadow of the Moon

What have you seen in your dreams, beneath the shadow, beneath the moon?

I yearn for what I used to have,
That happiness within.
A luminescent spark,
A candle in the dark,
Buried somewhere in my sin.

I have no name for what it is I feel.
This ache for something gone.
It was never in my grasp,
Never mine to clasp,
A flash of fading dawn.

Just a something glimpsed,
Alone on a winter's day.
A fortune to be found,
Silence in the sound,
Of her heart beating away.

And though I wished that it were mine,
That vision in my dreams;
Two lovers on a hill,
Sheltering each other from the chill.
Waking hours find reality a nightmare seems.

So I long for what I never had;
Answers to the questions I didn't dare to ask.
Imprisoned 'neath the shadow of the moon,
In the darkness in the corner of my room.
Desires forever trapped behind the visage of my mask...

I crave for what I never had,
Once upon a winter's eve.
You passed me by so long ago in June
That night, 'neath the shadow of the moon.
And you shall never perceive...

That I...
             ...I burn for you...

Author's Note

Inspired by several poems I recently read.

Reviews

[Ghost of Jupiter]

So on my stroll though poetry tonight I happened to come pause here under this forlorn moonlit piece...I can see how you have tied your more recent poem to this one... but I feel more hope blooming within your other write. This one is devoid of that...although this is lovely in its longingly dark way. A beautiful and amazing poem, Caradoc... I truly enjoy everything I read from you.

[Caradoc]

Thank you. This piece was without hope.

[Ghost of Jupiter]

:( hmm, yes I did feel that... I seem to be walking down that same hopeless path the further i walk through poetry tonight... lol... maybe i need to go read your dreams again. :)

[Caradoc]

Hahaha. My dreams are...interesting and inappropriate. You might be better off somewhere else. lolread moreHahaha. My dreams are...interesting and inappropriate. You might be better off somewhere else. lol

[Ghost of Jupiter]

hahaha...well if they are inappropriate, then ... i am curious...hahaha

[Caradoc]

Oh really? lol. Maybe I'll write a piece about my inappropriate dreams then.

[Ghost of Jupiter]

hahaha... I am sure you would have quite the following of fans after such a piece...;P

[Caradoc]

Would I now? lol. Maybe.

[Bright Ocean Star]

Very beautiful and magical. I love it. Thank you for writing this. I love anything lunar. The moon is a magical image. Love it!

[Caradoc]

Well thank you for reading and reviewing. Glad you found it enjoyable.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Again...the rhyme...
IMPO...I believe this would of came about better in prose...
yet the detail in the work shows thru...
the story compels the reader to keep going...so to speak...
to find out the finishing lines of this poetic design...

[Dewella~Vintella]

This is beautiful in a bitter-sweet kind of way. Dark desires and forsaken love, the loss of something you can never have; its is something a lot of poetry, and classic stories are built off of. Even so the value of such feelings in a plot never grows old, no matter how many time, or how many different ways it is portrayed.

No matter what it is you write I always love it ^^ But there is something about this piece that catches my fancy in a certain way. Probably because it speaks about something lighter in a darker way, which is something I am fond of, as well as how most of my poetry comes out. :P I am curious what poems you had been reading that lead to the making of this piece.

Amazing as always, keep it up.

-Dew

[Caradoc]

Thank you for such a long response. Unrequited love is something I am very good at writing about, especially the darker themed ones. I always enjoy reading what you write as well.

In fact, Dream Land Hills was one of the poems I read prior to writing this. I had also been listening to Shadow of the Moon by Blackmore's Night and had recently read The Dark Lovers by Raymond Federle. I recommend both.

[Dewella~Vintella]

Oh well don't I feel special for helping inspire you :P I guess its neice being able to return the favor seeing as how I often look through some of your pieces looking for some spark of inspiration. I will have to look the pieces you mentioned up, I am always searching for something new, especially for inspiration. ^^

[Caradoc]

Lol. Well you aren't the only one whose work has inspired me. But definitely one of the ones whose work has done it most often.

[Caradoc]

I feel so much through your words dear Cara, they always bring me into other places, and mindsets...

This one, has vampire too, but also, the love one can never touch, have, the elusiveness, between two people who love eachother, there is death, and pain, there is melancholy, and a heart wrenching, unconciousness of your quill.... very well crafted, even if out of yourself, as I read beneath, those mostly are the best ones... they lay so much closer to what you want to say, and bring over, than when you think them out... I loved it. Thank you xx

[Caradoc]

Thank you. I'm very glad that you enjoyed this one.

Yes, I did, and you're so welcome. :)

[Robbie~xoxo~]

The last line is the icing on the cake!
The yearning is beautifully expressed...I loved the whimsical winter theme of heartbreak...
The craving is bittersweet.... A Fantastic write!~xoxo~

[Caradoc]

Thanks Robbie. I was kind of mindless when I wrote this one. It just sort of poured out of wherever the words come from. Stranger still was that I felt none of it while writing. This is complete imagination.

[Robbie~xoxo~]

Really?... wow!...
I truly felt this...maybe you were feeling MY emotions? lol

[Caradoc]

Maybe, lol.

[Lyn Anderson]

I just love this. Unrequited love. My favourite topic since I dissected Romeo and Juliet a million years ago in high school. Thank you for sharing your delicate prose and sensual sensibilities with us. It just may be my favourite of yours I read to date. P.S. You did me! I did you. Thanks:)

[Caradoc]

Thank you for reading and reviewing. I'm really glad you liked this one.

Unrequited love is definitely a poet's bread and butter. There is so much to be written about it. It's something most, if not all, people will feel at some point in their lives.

Be well.

[cimmy wuv xxxooo]

This is beautiful, you have a way with words, this defiantly is coming from your heart.
I loved it, the flow of it the rhyming was brilliant, the emotion, the love its so beautiful and moving.
I felt the words and that truly is great, your a great writer :)
Enjoyed this piece :)

[Caradoc]

Thank you very much for reading and reviewing. You are too kind in your compliments, but still, they are appreciated.

Have a good one.

[cimmy wuv xxxooo]

Oh i try i try :P Your very much welcome :)

[Perdition]

As a long time fan of "Blackmore's Night" and Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple..etc) I can't help but love the title...Great Song...Anyway back to the poem...Well as a romantic by nature it is hard for me to not appreciate that you took a chanced woman that passes you by and found poetry in her presence instead...trust me a much higher love...lol. Actually not, but it serves the nerves way better. Reminiscent of Kafka and "The Passenger". In the light of the moon sometimes the shadow is your best of "face" or "visage" for the pen and page. I think you did good but the title has me partial. Thanks~

[Caradoc]

Thank you for your kind words. I too am a fan of Blackmore's Night, and Shadow of the Moon is one of my favorite songs from their early work. I am not as well versed with Richie's work in Deep Purple, but I do know a little bit more about Rainbow.

Hmm...to love from afar. I find that to be reminiscent of the so called "courtly love" from days bygone. However, today most would simply call such a love obsession.

Again, thank you. Be well.