Thursday, June 05, 2008
Tonight's Moonlit Bed
Many moons have risen
and held you in its pale blue light
while you wept and moaned
in dream infested sleep
Awoken by your nightly sorrows
I'd used to hold you close
and caress your stubborn curls
while moonshine kissed your restless lips
Slowly you'd calm down and slumber
in harmony with my soothing breast
until aurora spread her mighty wings
and concluded our nightly duet
Never once did you want to give tongue
to what battles you fought
in those grim and moony hours
and I could only guess
Like I'm guessing now
for the reasons as to why you've left
and wonder who's arms will hold you
in tonight's moonlit bed
©2008 Fenny
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Sounds like a lot of expression about someone who did not know how to express or how to seek out those of someone else.
Posted by: Scott | Friday, June 06, 2008
Fenny,
This is one of your best. I notice you wrote it a while ago. At first, I thought you were describing your child, but by the end, I was convinced it was a lover, or was it?
So many phrases stood out for me:
"dream infested sleep"
"grim and moony hours"
"never once did you want to give tongue"
You should be published, you know.
Kat
Posted by: Poetikat | Monday, June 09, 2008
Thanks Kat for all your kind words and for noticing the date, which was however a typo or at least I hope it was, or it must be I'm really losing track of time now :) , anyway I corrected it!
Posted by: Fenny | Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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