Beautiful nocturnal imagery, Deb. Ironically, I was watching the movie "Moonstruck"
tonight on cable. There's one scene imparticular featuring a huge, luminescent full
moon over the Manhattan skyline that piqued my lunar fascination. Made me wanna be
where you are.
Curiosity got the better of me, so I checked an online lunar calendar to see what the
moon will be up to during David Lahm's upcoming NY Jonifest. Alas, it will be a waxing
crescent...which is cool too. It's all good. Anyway, I do hope you and many other
jmdlers will be attendance. I'm so looking forward to meeting you.
I woke up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep, so I rewrote a
little poem that has been a work-in-progress for awhile. I hope ya'll don't mind if I
share it now:
He follows shadows of the moon
Not knowing wax from wane
He hopes that rapture's coming soon
He's boarded a slow train
Resigned to be a traveler
On long uncharted tracks
He sees his soul as like the night,
Mysterious and black.
He wakes somtimes in a cold sweat
Clutching dream diamonds in his fist
He heart is full of deep regret
(He wishes they were amethyst).
Clinging like death to innocence
He's tearful at a falling star
And disbelieves the man who claims
No sugar mountain anymore.
-Julius
npimh: "When the moon hits the sky like a big pizza pie..."
In a message dated Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:32:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, dsk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<< Tonight on my way home I got off the bus that goes up Madison Avenue and
caught sight of the moon when I turned east to walk toward home. It
stopped me in my tracks. What a beautiful sight tonight! It was as
bright as a bare lightbulb. Much more interesting though with that face
in the moon showing. It seemed so close and felt like a magnet pulling
me as far east as I could walk because I imagined once I got to the
river surely I'd be able to pluck it down, look it over closely, toss it
around a little maybe, and then put it back so it would keep shining on
y'all too. So how does the moon just hang there anyway? Oh, yeah,
something about orbits and gravity and all that stuff, but that doesn't
explain how tonight the moon looked so odd and dramatically alone as it
lit up all the thick clouds around it that were sometimes pausing, but
mostly flying past. The moon showed them the way.
Or so it seemed :-)
Debra Shea
in NYC, and obviously affected by all the dreams I've been reading about
NP: Dave Matthews, Live at Luther College, Seek Up
catman wrote:
> There was here too. I left my bedroom cutrtains open. it gave a nice
> light.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 3/9/01 10:10:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > << Is there a full moon or something?
> > >>
> > There was indeed.
