Of Moons and other Wonders

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PAD Prompt: Full Moon

It does not labor from the skyline like a sluggish beast

But slips above earth’s far elusive brim

A silver circle diadem ascending from the east

To garnish midnight’s muted, maudlin scrim

Since Eden’s birth the sun ignites the lunar lamp of dusk

Beneath its plaintive gaze of centuries

We live and die; earth-creature is but gasp of dust to dust

Sun, moon and stars, celestial deities

Beneath the gleam of astral rendering we plant and plow

The sun rules day, the moon and stars the night

While we of meeker stance must wipe the sweat-drop from the brow

And ponder things like God and death and life

What gracious kindness that Creator God did not declare

The night to be as deep and dark as hell

But breathed above the drop of earth resplendent radiance where

The mouths of men cannot its mystery tell

Thus, he who holds the glorious heavenly bodies in His grip

Knows the unknowns; and He is coming soon

We are not stranded here on some forgotten, drifting ship

To stare in hopeless wonder at the moon

© Janet Martin