Poem of the Day » moon http://www.shortpoems.org/poem Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:19:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 The Moon – Thoreau http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-moon-thoreau/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/the-moon-thoreau/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:42:33 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/04/03/the-moon-thoreau/ Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide;
Mortality below her orb is placed.
–Raleigh

The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray
Mounts up the eastern sky,
Not doomed to these short nights for aye,
But shining steadily.

She does not wane, but my fortune,
Which her rays do not bless,
My wayward path declineth soon,
But she shines not the less.

And if she faintly glimmers here,
And paled is her light,
Yet alway in her proper sphere
She’s mistress of the night.

By: Henry David Thoreau

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the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.

If your mind isn’t clouded
by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.

- Wu Men

]]> http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/10000-wu-men/feed/ 1 Alone and Drinking Under the Moon – Li Po http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/alone-and-drinking-under-the-moon-li-po/ http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/alone-and-drinking-under-the-moon-li-po/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:17:28 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/02/16/alone-and-drinking-under-the-moon-li-po/ Amongst the flowers I
am alone with my pot of wine
drinking by myself; then lifting
my cup I asked the moon
to drink with me, its reflection
and mine in the wine cup, just
the three of us; then I sigh
for the moon cannot drink,

and my shadow goes emptily along
with me never saying a word;
with no other friends here, I can
but use these two for company;
in the time of happiness, I
too must be happy with all
around me; I sit and sing
and it is as if the moon

accompanies me; then if I
dance, it is my shadow that
dances along with me; while
still not drunk, I am glad
to make the moon and my shadow
into friends, but then when
I have drunk too much, we
all part; yet these are

friends I can always count on
these who have no emotion
whatsoever; I hope that one day
we three will meet again,
deep in the Milky Way.

Li Po

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