There are differing definitions of blue moons, too complicated to elaborate on here, but there is agreement on "twice in a blue moon".
In distant scarp and scree of corn field,
Where it rises up to bleak wooded hills
Spotted with snow and cold gray sunset,
Where I have come to begin a year new
Beneath a second blue moon, nineteen years
In its coming, and in my need for omens
And portents of some better beginning,
The resolve to let go of what has ended.
I am not alone here, earth-bound, afraid
And burrowed deep, looking for a sign
To be revealed in the starless sky, some
Old or new annunciation to believe in . . .
And what we see, seemingly motionless
But yet circling, lifting and spiraling
In the shadowed air, a single hawk,
A singular and dark constellation,
Unnamed but more true than Orion,
As we hear the wind say 'prey', and 'pray'.
Poetry by countryfog
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Written on 2011-01-05 at 16:13
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Twice in a Blue Moon
Walking at dusk where the year endsIn distant scarp and scree of corn field,
Where it rises up to bleak wooded hills
Spotted with snow and cold gray sunset,
Where I have come to begin a year new
Beneath a second blue moon, nineteen years
In its coming, and in my need for omens
And portents of some better beginning,
The resolve to let go of what has ended.
I am not alone here, earth-bound, afraid
And burrowed deep, looking for a sign
To be revealed in the starless sky, some
Old or new annunciation to believe in . . .
And what we see, seemingly motionless
But yet circling, lifting and spiraling
In the shadowed air, a single hawk,
A singular and dark constellation,
Unnamed but more true than Orion,
As we hear the wind say 'prey', and 'pray'.
Poetry by countryfog
Read 398 times
Written on 2011-01-05 at 16:13
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