Purest silver light
cascades into darkest night;
heaven’s lantern,
constant
but drawn by the tide,
fades into black
from a smiling face
to a winking eye.
© Kim M. Russell, 2016
Image found on Pinterest
Taken from a previously posted cascading haiku and reworked for dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Moon-muse, where Grace has asked us to write about the moon as if the moon is a person – flesh, sweat and blood.
writing in north norfolk 
This is so poetic… I feel I should write one less funny…
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Thanks Bjorn. I’ve added a cheeky one for you as promised!
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Love cascading moonlight…
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I love the idea of the moon being heaven’s lantern ❤
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🌃
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Love the image….love the idea of cascading light into a darkened sky! 🙂 Very nice!
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“heaven’s lantern” is perfection.
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Thank you, De!
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I’d forgotten about this fun form, the Cascade…works so well for this.
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Thank you, Victoria!
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heaven’s lantern…. I couldn’t love that more.
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🙂
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Another beautiful moon poem. Bella Luna with a wink.
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Thank you for being so thorough with your reading and commenting on the poems, Merril.
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You’re welcome. The ones I read were really lovely.
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Bjorn called it poetic! It is poetic and then some! Very visual in its brevity!
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Thank you, Walt!
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sMiLes..
seCret
now oF
Moon’s
WinK
IS A
sMiLe(S)
so sUrE…
oF coMinG bacK..:)
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🌛
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:)..)
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Very nice! ❤
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🙂
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it is interesting to think of the moon pulled by the water instead of the other way around =) a different perspective. =)
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Thank you for reading and commenting on the unusual perspective!
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Another very late comment…sorry, I’ve had to catch up.
“heaven’s lantern”…such a lovely idea
This is a charming tribute to the moon, Kim. 🙂
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🙂
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