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| Poetry Cycles - Doing Sappho | |||
| Lisa Jain Thompson | |||
| Monday, 04 December 2006 15:27 | |||
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Moonlight
Have you heard the stars at night?
Or seen the earth as she spun upon the sea? I have watched the sky erupt with galactic illumination
As a sun explodes with fiery purpose And then grows cold as it shrinks into the waiting darkness. I have felt my heart reach out to meet disdain And then retreat beyond the horizon. I have tasted bright pleasures and wondrous joy As love surrounded and then encaptured My soul with a word or a glance. I have waited along the shoreline For the women to pass by And my love to wash ashore And come slowly back to me. I have known the comet as it streaked across heaven And the meteor that fell from vagrant orbit And plummeted to the ocean wave. I have been alone, and not, And joined barefoot girls As they danced beneath the moonlight.  Copyright Lisa Jain Thompson August 10, 1997
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