Being a flat county, Norfolk has huge, expansive skies. In the daytime, they are expressive, with scudding clouds and ever-changing colours, whereas cloudless nights are full of stars or flood-lit by a full moon. My favourite moon is the one that looks like a smile, beaming down on me: the mezza luna.
tides tumble on sand
blossoming orchestration
fresh and lunar-led
Kim M. Russell, 27th February 2023
Image by Tristen Lee on Unsplash
It’s Monday and the return of the haibun with Frank at the dVerse Poets Pub, when we blend prose and haiku. Today we are showing love for a phase of the moon that’s often overlooked: Mezza Luna, the quarter phase or half-moon.
Frank has given us poems by Wordsworth and Browning, as well as a haibun by Janice of OnTheLand, to inspire us to write our own haibun that reference Mezza Luna, or half-moon.
writing in north norfolk 
Lovely ❤️
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Thanks muchly Marilyn!
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I agree… the half moon looks like a smile, more and more the further south you are.
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And last night I saw four planets! Apparently the aurora borealis is visible over East Anglia at the moment. I haven’t seen it here in over thirty years and hope to see it again.
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It has been visible in Sweden as well, but not when we were outside.
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What a beautiful scene you’ve set, Kim. We’ve had rain, snow, sleet, and back to rain again… I had hoped to glimpse the planets in the night sky.
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Thank you Colleen! I was hoping to catch the aurora borealis last night, but it was hard to see it from here. I have, however, seen photos of last night’s display online – fantastic!
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I read about how beautiful the skies in the UK have been! Lucky you… tonight might be a clear one for us. I’ll have to take a peek outside.
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Love that haiku! Funny that we both used sea imagery.
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Thanks Jane. I haven’t read yours yet as I couldn’t hang around last night. But I am about to read and comment.
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I only read yours and Björn’s last night. It was time to start shutting things down for the night.
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Just love this big skies ~ lovely capture.
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Thank you so much Paul.
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Sounds like a great place to live. Well done.
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It is a lovely place, Dwight. Thank you.
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Pleasant reading, Kim, especially when the new-moon will smile at you.
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Thank you Jim!
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I saw the moon this morning the sky was crisp and clear. The thought of the moon smiling from above brought a smile to my face.
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Now I’m smiling too.
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Just like a smile! (K)
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🙂
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Lovely words..
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Thank you Judy!
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🙂
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So lovely, smiling Moon 💝
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Thank you Jay!
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“tides tumble on sand”, this is a great line, Kim. 🙂
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Thank you Kitty!
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There is a lovely and rugged beauty to massive expanses – especially open skies unfettered by sky-scrapers. I love your “scudding clouds” – it’s so great a phrase – and oh! nothing like a million stars in the ink pot night sky! Lovely Kim 🙂
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I’m delighted you liked the scudding clouds, we get quite a lot of them; Norfolk skies are so expressive.
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I like the reference to the lunar-led tides.
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Thanks for reading and commenting, Maggie.
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Lovely read about your experiences of the Norfolk area, enjoyed!
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Thank you Angela!
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What a beautiful piece! I so love the lyrical muse of the title. ❤
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Thank you kindly Layla!
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What a beautiful and poetic way to show your love for the mezza luna! I love reading and writing about moon phases, and this poem is very well written. It’s great to see poets writing about all different aspects of moon culture, and I hope to see more poetry about the mezza luna in the future.
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Thank you so much, Sarah, for reading and commenting. We often have moon prompt at the dVerse Poets Pub.
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