Mike Turner

In the Moon’s Blue Light

 

The cold blue light of the full Winter Moon

Illuminates snowy landscape

Trees draped with Nature’s lace

Sounds muffled, quieted

Diamonds glistening against the frost

Stars twinkling against black velvet skies

Shadows lengthening under silent boughs

And for a moment, the Earth ceases its rotation

Time itself standing still

As we are bathed in beauty and peace

In the Moon’s blues light

 

* This poem was displayed in the 2024 Spring exhibition, “Polarity,” hosted by the Detroit Lakes Poetry Walk, Detroit Lakes, MN USA. It has not previously appeared in print.

Where the Moon Kisses the Sea

 

Where the Moon kisses the sea

Where ocean embraces sky

There I hope to find Thee

And linger by-and-by

 

We’ll dance to Nature’s choir

Share kisses meant to be

And our Love shall never tire

Where the Moon kisses the sea

 

 

*  This poem was previously published in the anthology, Emerald Coast Review, October 2023

Holding the Moon

 

Holding the Moon

In the palm of my hand

Diamond starlight glints

On a robin’s-egg-blue ocean

Gazing upon her crafters and seas

I fall from celestial heights

Into azure, icy depths

The shock a balm

Cooling boiling passions

Becalming raging storms

Cyclones dropping to a zephyr

Ruffling the pond’s surface

Upon which I float

Staring into the heavens

Of a glimmering soap bubble

Joyously bursting into a shower of rainbowed droplets

Leaving me holding the Moon

In the palm of my hand