Long Night Moon

The Midweek Challenge on Weekly Prompts is: Curiosities. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here and I think my poem below is curious piece about the Winter Solstice

Featured Images Above & Below: were taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allows me use his photos in conjunction with my poems >> https://derrickjknight.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/rising-ground-mist/



Long Night Moon
 
 
 
Dawn’s winter sunlight 

Filters through the gloom 

And softly kisses everything 


The loitering ground mist rises 

Above the cold night’s 

Bed of overlaying ferns 


As the season’s solstice 

Stealthily tiptoes away 

From the long night moon *



* The Long Night Moon gets its name because the full moon in December occurs near the solstice, which has the longest night of the year.



 




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