Lux Lunae

In homage to the satellite of light

O radiant maiden drifting there- the sable sea

Whose countenance scowls, glaring fair melancholy

What ivory guile casts your guise, watchful one

Drowned in dusk, current clutches cold without sun

Incite the tides, motivate the movement of love

Emanating cosmic grace, you bless mortal realms.

So that the darkness yields to lambencies above,

Beam thine gleam supreme! So bright that it overwhelms!

However, what you offer is not yours to give

Not as the oceans cede to stream and nourish lakes

Forevermore shall night’s profundities outlive

As proof when crescents cease and blackness overtakes

Though solar luminance sustains the life of us

I look to thee for guidance through the tenebrous

Author's Note

I wrote this on a night that seemed like the moon was my only friend. There was so much tragedy in my life at once. I wrote this in an apartment after the power was shut off and I had no where to go. I laid there in the dark, praising the moon for the light it blessed me with. So inspired that something I take for granted could be there to console me in that desolate and miserable moment, I lit a dying candle and spilled affection. Alas, there is always darkness in the end, but let us notice and recognize that we are alive.

Reviews

[Zahra]

This is superb. Beautifully crafted......

[Meesh]

This is excellent. I love the versatility of your vocabulary and the radiance with which you describe a subject that is so often take for granted. Truly exquisite work.

[Rhianne Ney]

This is a good poem for guidance.

Keep writing~

[clairekeown25]

wow breathtaking true worship

[Coyote Poetry]

A amazing journey in your words. I like the field trip and visions create by this outstanding poem.
Coyote

[Be myself!]

O' so beautiful. :)

[Tate Morgan]

We will all be better off here than anywhere ewlse it sustains us it raised us we grew up here we draw our sustinance form it and it from us

[Weasley]

It's gorgeous. Slightly Shakespearian and totally beautiful. Love it all.