Mystery wanderer of the sky,
Watchful guide of the voyager on land,
Silent observer of the night going by,
To forlorn and joyless, a wistful friend.
Muse to longing lovers, both canine and primate,
Trusted confidant to the jilted and forlorn;
Harbringer alike of auspice and damned fate,
Compelling, commanding of admiration and scorn.
Lone warrior, graceful liege,
Encircled amid an army of stars,
Ever-transitional: accompanied or besieged?
One can never know from so much afar.
Inspirations
A set of other poems on the moon that I read as inspiration before composing my own:
- Astrophil and Stella 31 by Sir Philip Sidney
- To the Moon by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Strange fits of passion I have known by William Wordsworth
- I Watched The Moon Around The House by Emily Dickinson
- The Freedom Of The Moon by Robert Frost
- Moon Compasses by Robert Frost
- A Hymn to the Moon by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson
