Moon from my sitting room window (photo on film, ‘legacy’ Zeiss Sonnar lens)
It is now unusual for me to pick up on the theme given for members of our local writers’ club – Writing on the Wharfe – to write something for the following meeting. Our most recent meeting before today was on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing so the theme given, no surprise, was ‘moon’.
Why it appealed to me I don’t know, perhaps because on a clear night I follow with wonder her travel across the sky from our sitting room window, perhaps because I covered the event (from an engineering point of view) as a journalist in 1969.
My ‘poem’, however, has nothing to do with engineering.
Moon
brightly watching me through my window
Venus at her shoulder
stirring thoughts of love
Mars more secretly telling of his presence
protecting the three of us
from what I do not know
i feel the trio watching over you too
so far away
can you see them?
i know you feel the stardust
always
even when you cannot see the stars
My ‘poem’ is dedicated to my female blogging friend(s) who feel the stardust.
Grumpytyke 
August 4, 2019 at 2:51 pm
Hi Roger I’ve just written a long and thoughtful reply to your lovely POEM Moon (note the lack of inverted commas!) directly into your WordPress site and ended up having to write and rewrite my name, email, passwords etc (same problem as we had when you came to help me set up a blog for myself!) until I could no longer find my lengthy and thoughtfully constructed comments that I had hoped you and your international blogosphere friends would enjoy! And of course my comments had disappeared before I could save them! Now you’ll only have to speculate at the mystical majesty of those words! I hope you had a wonderful meeting yesterday. See you soon Jx
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August 4, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Thank you for making the effort James. ‘Losing’ so many longer comments in the past I now write them outside of WordPress then copy and paste into the comment box. However, there are some blogs where even this fails.