Crescent Moon

I really love the visuals you portray in your writing and the way one can read your work several times, getting a little something more out of it each time.

Hey Lora, yes there seems to be varying meaning. I often start to write something that inspires me to only find myself stumbling across something else, also inspiring. The journey of writing helps us better understand ourselves, something that was always in us.

This particular poem was encouraged by a psycho therapist I met recently, she also likes to work with wood. She wrote me one morning and explained how she had dragged her kids out of bed to see the New Moon. She referred to the poet Mary Oliver and how I could surely come up with a poem.

I didn’t get to see the moon until the next chilly, dark morning while pumping gas. Now the moon was one day old and had a white sliver to it. After work, I started to recall the scene and the poem erupted, going to a place I hadn’t planned.

Quote :

It's a tilted smile

Put the picture in my mind right there
And then the other words moved me along

behind the curtain unseen stagehands set up for the next scene, poetry is very alive.

I enjoyed reading this and as was mentioned, each time you re-read it, a new dawn awakens from it . Also I enjoyed the simplcitiy of the imagery used to convey. Well done .

Hey CPSP, I agree with the smplicity in words. Sometimes we can over use words or themes so obvious that it makes the writing fall apart.