Moon Poems
Moon Poems by Johanna Jordan
Her Brightness
moon can't help it
color of breath
color of death
color of sun?
returned
her returning light
is changed
changes
yellow to white
gold to silver
fire to ice
used, loved
she receives
she returns
moon can't help it
*****
Old Moon
What if moon coul be
rounded by your eyes,
with looking, with loving?
Imagine its smooth flight beyond clouds
the other side of earth, over China.
Think of how moon journeys
through storms and seasons, its light
falling, falling.
Watch it take its knocks unshaken--
chipped by passing planets,
star-burned, sun-scorched,
buffeted by thunderclouds.
See its edges worn with rolling round.
Now a pale lopsided pebble like an egg,
moon will be grateful for your soft eyes,
luminous, fragile, enduring.
*****
To Moon (Crescent)
smooth from the south
night clouds slide by
slow as dolphins ride
moon eye, moon sigh
moon silence consumed
with breath, with song
we swim in your tide and dream
sweet slender sister moon
who could resist your silver smile
*****
Poems by Johanna Jordan .... wise woman, healer, artist, seeker.