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A very simple title. (Written on Feb 20, at 7:40 AM)

 

The sun breaks the night

the moon cries as it licks it's mortal wounds

decending into the light it disappears

as the sun overpowers its feeble aura.

 

The solar king reigns

until it too has tired from it's duties

decending to it's resting place

as the foolish moon takes the stage.

 

Reborn the moon dances

amid the cloudy subjects of the sky kingdom

the star children cheer on the jester

in it's light they twinkle with mischief.

 

But the sun breaks the night

after its long and peaceful slumber

and the children are reformed

as they fade from normal view.

 

And the solar king reigns

from a heavenly throne on high

until another day.

Another cycle in it's life.

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Movement follows hard upon movement

and day follows hard upon night

and time is made and measured

and marked by the motion

of bodies that shine in the sky.

 

The movements of life likewise are parceled

into the sensible daylight of movement and work

and the slumbering night time of rest,

from waking to resting to waking again

pacing the steady, relentless erasure

of darkness by light

and the draining of light into dark.

 

A very well-chosen theme to build a poem around, Rune – there’s something about the regular and measured cycling of sun and moon which seems particularly well-suited to verse. It’s easy to forget in this age of electric lights and often sleepless nights that for the bulk of human history the cycles and movements of human life were shaped to accord with these same movements of sun and moon.

 

You take an intriguing approach here to the contrast between night and day that goes beyond simply being the difference between dark and light and it might be worth trying to sharpen that a bit.

 

Thanks for sharing such a creative piece of writing – it’s a fun read.

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