Wolf moon tonight (and other moon names)

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There I'll be

Why can't it be
that you are on
the narrow road
I walk along?
I'm sure that
I can see you;
walking just ahead of me.
Some day, one day
you'll turn around:
you'll look,
and there I'll be.

Goodnight

Goodnight, my someone,
Goodnight, my love,
Sleep tight, my someone,
Sleep tight, my love,
Our star is shining it's brightest light
For goodnight, my love, for goodnight.

Sweet dreams be yours, dear,
If dreams there be.
Sweet dreams to carry you close to me.
I wish they may and I wish they might
Now goodnight, my someone, goodnight

True love can be whispered from heart to heart
When lovers are parted they say
But I must depend on a wish and a star
As long as my heart doesn't know who you are.

Sweet dreams be yours dear,
If dreams there be,
Sweet dreams to carry you close to me.
I wish they may and I wish they might.
Now goodnight, my someone, goodnight.
Goodnight,
Goodnight.
--from The Music Man

Follow the leader

You lead,
I'll follow
just as before
when we were
like children at play.
If you call
I will answer,
and then you will see
that I'll follow:
just show me the way.

Lothlorien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3TglKQnl3Q

But in dreams...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKTYwufgjoE

Nightsong

Look for another
to take your place?
Hope for a stronger
or warmer embrace?
The moon would
leave the sky forever
before I'd find someone
I could love better.

Lucky Moon

Cool and distant,
far above
in blackest night
you shine.
Lucky moon...
serene and lovely
light of stars,
shine kindly
as I walk this path
alone.

(first published 1/1/09)

The Eve of Saint Agnes

They told her how, upon St. Agnes' Eve,

Young virgins might have visions of delight,

And soft adorings from their loves receive

Upon the honeyed middle of the night,

If ceremonies due they did aright...

--John Keats in The Eve of Saint Agnes

I Have Dreamed

"Alone and awake I've looked at the stars,

The same that smile on you;

And time and again I've thought all the things

That you were thinking too."
 
--from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Camelot 

Night

"The west is broken into bars
Of orange, gold, and gray;
Gone is the sun, come are the stars,
And night infolds the day."

--from George MacDonald's Songs of the Summer Nights

Confidences

"And he continued his confidences: "The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Doors

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”

--Flora Whittemore

A winter's night

Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.

--Minna Thomas Antrim

Never the same...

"Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again."

--George MacDonald

Proud flower

"Then she added: "Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!"

For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower..."

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Forgotten: a note from Wendy

Why

did you

disappear

and leave me

all alone--

here--

looking
at the sky?

Peter,
won't you
tell me
why?

Crooked road

There once was a man
with a crooked little smile,
and he walked along with me
for such a very little while
on the crooked road of life
to an unfamiliar bend
where suddenly I lost sight of him,
and there the story ends.

Evening

"In the evening of  life you will be judged on love."

--Saint John of the Cross