Wandering by Moonlight

Gordon Dawson

Description

This book is about what the heart sees, feels and remembers. It is rich with the awakening of dreams, imagined journeys and portraits of nature.
With the gift of illuminating the darkness, the moon holds a special place in many hearts as a sign of quiet strength and beauty.
In a collection of poems divided into four sections—crescent, half, gibbous, and full moon— Wandering by Moonlight explores what the heart sees, feels, and remembers, while reflecting on the awakening of dreams, imagined journeys, and portraits of nature.
Lovely, quiet, and challenging, these poems explore a deep awareness of human strength and frailty wrapped in nature’s many gifts for a spirit willing to know what it means to travel the seasons, to live a life by paying attention.

Sujets

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 21 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665731218
• Langue: English

Extrait

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Copyright © 2022 Gordon Dawson.
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
This book is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book.
 
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Book design and layout by Danielle Misché and the author.
Cover art from a painting Oregon Moon by E. L. Stewart.
Titles are type set in Monotype Corsiva. Text is set in Times New Roman.
 
 
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3120-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3119-5 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3121-8 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022918105
 
Archway Publishing rev. date: 10/26/2022
 
 
 
 
 
For the children, whose light and insight fills the w orld.
 
 
 
Breathing in her smell, he kissed her, saw the pieces of the moon
coming up through her from the grass, so that in those pl aces
she was translucent. It was a blue moon, that rare lunar occurr ence
of every two or three years, the second full moon in a single m onth,
and they lay on the pieces of it, unafraid of its penetrating l ight.
David L. Lindsey
Sp iral
Table of Contents
Crescent Moon
Stumbling Through
Winter World
Silver Thaw
The Dance Teacher
Tomorrow
Whispers
Misty
Questions
For Laurel, for Tal
December Child
Mail Carrier
Reunion
Without Nails
Winds of Winter
Inbound
Half Moon
Bradley Road Refuge
Fire Drill
It Isn’t Me
October Child
Rain
A Full Day
It Matters
Not Calling
Older But No Wiser
Looking Tired
Orange Moon
Some Say
Saving the Day
Seeing You
Gibbous Moon
Necanicum Nocturne
Blue Moon
Pearls From Childhood
July Son
Escape to Childhood
Certainty
Houseboat Concerto
Flashback
July in Yellow
The Gathering
The Visitor Who Stayed
Your Mother and Mine
Wandering by Moonlight
Full Moon
Little Sentinels
March Note
In The Canyon of Light
Marbles
May Fire
Backward Glance
A Mean Child
Beyond Borders
Emily, I Was Waiting
Kingfisher Lake
Spoken in Silence
The Spare Room
Just a Thought
Outside Late
Knowing How to Begin
Wind Child
Sleight of Hand
Remember Me
Crescent Moon
A person’s work is nothing but a long journey to recover,
through the detours of art, the two or three simple and great things
which first gained access to the heart.
Remember what you have seen, because everything forgotten
returns to the circling winds.

Navajo Wind Chant

Stumbling Through
Sometimes the world holds back time for you.
One minute, an hour, it doesn’t matter.
It is always enough, a gift no less precious than a day
of brilliant sun after winter begins to leak away.
For your time with me, thank you.
I have hated my speech, words from a past life
that stumbled like wild horses on prairie dog plains,
ancient injuries, old pain.
I choose to write what I cannot speak,
drifting slowly toward better outcomes,
a geography smoothed by water, time and careful walking.
I speak with you because you listen through awkward
unmarked turns to find what is elusive.
Winter World
We go to the island when the rest of the world closes up.
Just a few farmhouses, houseboats, fields frowning with cold.
Shouldering through winter storms, then sleeping
summers away for years.
People out here have stood against a civilization
crazy with schemes to chase out nature’s elegant retreat.
The courage they’ve found to fight wars for their land,
their way of life, goes unnoticed, a slight breeze over water.
I drive these dead-end roads in a series of made-up circles,
look out of windows open to December, fields suddenly
full of tired geese and a few swans, the only white so far this season.
A single large bird, an owl at twilight, crosses my vision without a sound.
We take a last look in the lonely trees for wintering eagles, swing south,
back to the main road home. Like the eagle, I am a humble visitor
who has found on this island a quiet path through winter. Among
the darkening trees, Christmas appears, colored lights of living kindness.