Sunday, October 26, 2014

Day 26: Dreaming moon

Not so long ago, a blood moon
rose in this autumn sky,
portent of the end of days
and happenstance,
a statistical anomaly for those
who number nights 
and measure the cosmos
with light years.
Instead the pull of gravity,
brings us to this moment,
woman's moon,
a dreaming moon
rising and falling in the night,
a perfect round of days,
nine months if we are counting,
and a child is born. 
All we know,
all we aspire to,
begins anew.











Today's prompt from Octpowrimo is to write of sleep or dreaming. Immediately, I thought of a dreaming moon and a grandchild-to-be who should arrive in the  next week or so. The photo, "Harvest Moon," comes from Wikipedia

Read what others have written in response to this prompt by going HERE.



6 comments:

Deepti Agarwal said...

Loved it..

And Congratulations in advance .

Sunita said...

So thoughful :)

Congratulations Beth :)

Here, There be a Writer said...

This is beautiful, Beth.

Michelle Liew said...

Missed the blood moon that was supposed to have been here on the 7th. Oh well! Congrats on your grandchild-to-be!!! How exciting!

Unknown said...

lovely.

Shan Jeniah Burton said...

I love babies. May you and this new little one to be have many delightful moments together!