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Every day visits*
From Moose, Goose, and Orb Weaver
All seized by Haiku


"Why moose and goose?" you may ask. Back on 2/04/13 Pirate wrote a haiku with an elk in it, and I responded with
one with a moose and then included him every day. A few days later in comments Mystic asked "Where's the goose?"
So I started including her with this post on 2/07. A week later on the 14th, Mark Readfern
asked for and received a spider. The rest is history.

*Well, most days, anyway. Grant me a bit of poetic license.

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Autumn in the Garden

Magaly's invitation to the danse -- "Share any poem you like. Any form. Old or new. We’ll delight in it. If there is a hint of Autumn or October in its lines, I’ll probably dance with it. Fine, I will kiss it on the mouth."

So - another from deep in the archives - a demented sonnet offered here in honor of halloween, with mouth and tongue all moist and eager.  [Beware the teeth and claws.]


                      CELIBATE FATE

For four more weeks she keeps her innocence --
Mere carnal yearning since she was beguiled
Into wedlock with Selene's child
And his twenty-seven days of impotence.

The moon's once-in-a-cycle minstrel song
Called him out to last night's bloody rending,
Announced his victim's grim and grisly ending,
Siren to his lunatic Wulfsarkergang.

A shimmering crystal moonbeam, cold and clear,
Illuminates what never was but always were.
Its gray light casts the sacrifice's setting,
But her blood never flows at his blood-letting.

Her celibate fate follows Nature's whim:
The moon, not she, brings out the beast in him.

                                 ~~::~~

14 comments:

  1. That gives full moons (and dating prospects) a whole new meaning, doesn't it? Teeth and claws, indeed...

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  2. A haunting. The moon is watching.

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  3. My goodness! This gives me goosebumps!

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  4. spooky. love this line "A shimmering crystal moonbeam, cold and clear,
    Illuminates what never was but always were."

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  5. The last line is the best! Scary love😨

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  6. Ah.. the werewolf curse... a wellknown moon problem, love the sense of lost virginity in this.

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  7. Oh this is spooky! I love it!
    Anna :o]

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  8. Celibate fate... so intriguing...

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  9. Perfect, perfect. Glad to be reading this at dawn instead of before bed. :)

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  10. Oh my, beware what a date brings if it falls beneath a full moon.

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  11. Her celibate fate follows Nature's whim:
    The moon, not she, brings out the beast in him

    The moon obviously is impacting on its amorous tendencies that brings out the best in the man!

    Hank

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