Circling the Moon
Jeffrey Lynn Naylor 1954 (Orlando)
circling the moon, chasing comet tails,
i spied a creature hiding behind beams
shining light years away across desert
expanses, dancing through solar winds
spiraling like a celestial jewel sweeping
through the heavens, waiting for
the moment
the time
the space
to open wide a dimensionless plain
and appear from disguise as a star
of love
of passion
of hope
to close tight the widening unknown
disappearing into my world as a thing
of beauty waiting to be loved as a glow
wishing to be discovered as the poem
that never again hides love behind
curtains of cosmological design.
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Submitted by mijena6 on April 27, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOEPQRS |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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