Moon Less 13: Stargazing For Beginners

By tori villar, Patrick and Sofia

A compilation of personal life observations collected during the months of lockdown and pandemic restrictions reviewed under the scope of the recent invasion and war in Ukraine. The photographs are part of the imagery of the poem, sometimes supporting it, sometimes contradicting it, sometimes just to add a sliver of colour. Like our memory, they are mostly blurred.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781458321527

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It has been a long, dreary winter of a year and truth be told I have lost track of the months that went by in a cloud of cold, wet darkness where the only stars that could be seen were dancing within.

I caught a glimpse of a low lying burnt orange Mars last night, and as the breeze swirled past I seized a whiff of the scent of summer and, perhaps I will chance the hassle of mounting the Christmas telescope.

Hobby killer, they say.

Rather, the longing chased the lonely and Vega cried for nothing, quite speechless. Yet there.

Always there.

Peace can be

to watch the moon

rise over the horizon,

knowing,

as always,

that its light

will bring

no ill boding.

Its company

will utter

no stinging comments.

That we

can close our eyes

in the knowledge that the music

we play

is neutral

to the soundlessness of her song.

His song.

I might sleep tonight

With the moon face lighting my face

Without a veil.

Winds might rage,

Clouds might linger

In other latitudes tonight.

But here the air

Is clear and crisp

as

Velvet ice

on a bed of stars.

The dog sleeps outside

Enchanted by the light

Enticed by the scent

of summer