poetry & musings

Moonlit Garden Literary: Issue 1

Theme: The Moon


Photo by Vino Li on Unsplash

From the editor (me):

A
(re)union
of souls
casting spells
&
giving side eye
no shade
shadows through
masking
&
basking
in the moonlight
&
moonlit glow
of
evening
twilight
no, midnight
&
on repeat

~
The Moon is distant from the Sea
By Emily Dickinson

The Moon is distant from the Sea –
And yet, with Amber Hands –
She leads Him – docile as a Boy –
Along appointed Sands –

He never misses a Degree –
Obedient to Her eye –
He comes just so far – toward the Town –
Just so far – goes away –

Oh, Signor, Thine, the Amber Hand –
And mine – the distant Sea –
Obedient to the least command
Thine eye impose on me –

~
Photo by Vida Huang on Unsplash

A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring.
And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:—
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.

~
Photo by Anureet, 2026