Moon Haiku by Joshua St. Claire

distant streetlight third-quarter moon 

so late 
it’s already tomorrow 
ALL CAPS MOON 

just black coffee 
that year I was
 the crescent moon 

just another cirrus day moon 

CTRL f the moon 

sfumato 
moonlight 
through the Atlantic mist 

after the last streetlight moon 


leaving it 
untitled 
the moon 

migraine 
curled up 
into a trapezoid of moonlight 

moon through altostratus 
a porchlight turns on 
at the end of the lane 

another haiku 
about nothing 
new moon night 

Joshua St. Claire

 (Image by DWB)


4 thoughts on “Moon Haiku by Joshua St. Claire

  1. Joshua
    This is like a moon coming in and out of a bank of speeding clouds. A great secret loneliness is present as the mind connects with the Moon, which is probably at the same time being looked at by thousands, millions. Yet as in as many secret ways.
    Leila

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  2. DWB's avatar DWB says:

    Joshua

    Anyone who isn’t fascinated by the moon must have a heart of stone. Every time I see it again it renews my faith in beauty again, at least for a few crucial moments. CONQUERING the moon and journeying there to plant a flag upon it is an entirely other story. But even with the pathetic little flags stuck in it, the Moon itself still smiles on. Sometimes I wonder who put it there and if “no one” did that’s somehow even more impressive in certain ways. (It makes me think that “no one” we see might really be a Someone – invisible to mortal eyes, except in the created works all around us.)

    Today’s series of poems by yourself shows how to make an eternally human subject NEW again, which is, by inserting individual Personality into the mix. Many have seen the moon and all see it a little differently, just like the uncannily true Leila says.

    Dale

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