Wednesday, 17 June 2020

A Poem a Day (180): Man in the Moon


Man in the Moon

This curved moon kicks and strides
In time with a streak of stars
Glittering on pitch-black shores.

He slumbers still, doesn’t stir,
This sprightly Man in the Moon
Whose sole function is to study
Humanity, nature, this full globe,
Nurturing each deserving thing.

He dreams of peace and love,
Wraps it up in a melancholy song,
Peeling off hate, pain and cruelty.
He annihilates guns and strife,
Changing them into wildflowers.

He revives each extinct species,
And protects the ones remaining.
He halts cancers of the body,
Pathogens of the glorious mind.

And in this arc of the silvery moon,
In wistful slumber he creates
A perfected version of it all.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, June 17, 2020

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