eve's sphere

Its orange sherbet beams flow silk tapestry

in rippling descent across the inky lake

as an indigo tree line drapes

an Egyptian Blue sphere in late eve.

I, gazing on the orb,

hunched in cooling grass

curling about my elbows,

sense a wisp of my innerness leaning,

outright permissive to its strange quality.

She calls me Amaris while it rises,

condensing into an inch of silver 

against the caliginous curtain of night;

the spell of the moon

not as strong as her ensorcel.

Vividly clouds uncover stars piercing their ceiling,

but she who breaks the spell 

is not looking.

Her eyes have become captors 

of the moon and me.

From the placid 

leaps a perch, flip flop splashes 

in the still of the moment,

and her enchantment is disrupted.

Such quake leaves Luna's message garbled,

and I escape the twain hexing;

she focuses keenly, but I know better,

her eyes are to forbear,

the moonlight to be abjured.

I, dejected and crestfallen,

am inconsolable and dispirited.

The moon will forever stretch 

as wide as her arms across placid lakes

captured in her chocolate irises.

I will pray for morning as I walk away,

to sink the orb into bluer skies,

to raise the cheery Sun,

leaving her trite incantation

sobbing in the waning silver of the moon.

Author's Note

Amaris - Spanish - Child of the moon

Reviews

[Alfred Kukitz]

You have that down home richness captured as only you, Silver, can do. Elegance floats your words into the air and I read and breathe you into me.

[AprilRN1210]

Very nice.... Enchanting, vivid imagery...

"Its orange sherbet beams flow silk tapestry
in rippling descent across the inky lake
as an indigo tree line drapes
an Egyptian Blue sphere in late eve." Absolutely beautiful!!

[m.s.early]

Thank you so much April :)

[AprilRN1210]

you are very welcome!

[Bright Ocean Star]

Utterly captivating...I'm struck speechless/wordless as the case may be. Incredible imagery, magical, too beautiful for words. Thank you, Xavier, for another wonderful poem. I'm saving this one to my favorites. 100/100

[m.s.early]

Thank you so kindly, Anne :)

[Rita L. Sev]

Stunning images in this, Xavier - a gorgeous write.

The moon will forever stretch
as wide as her arms across placid lakes
captured in her chocolate irises.

Love this!

[Shirlena]

Utterly spellbinding...I was frozen, couldn't move as my eyes were powerless and my mind willing to be lead. This one of the most gorgeous writes and there are many men who write as if to snatch you into their world of scribes because it's so special but I think you rank high with the best. I must have just a corner of it :)

[m.s.early]

Thank you for such a warm review Shirleena. Consider the corner yours :)

[Shirlena]

lol thank you.

[B.J]

Wonderful imagery every line is written with feeling.

[m.s.early]

Thank you Barb :)

[Tina Louise UK]

Gorgeous piece, wonderful imagery, enjoyed :) x

[m.s.early]

Thank you so much Tia :)

[Linda alexander]

Her eyes have become captors
of the moon and I.
Splendid imagination, excellent carefully chosen vocabulary, inerwoven in to love, this poem is beyond my range to review for sure, poet gets upset as the amaris is not his own, too bad, poet can not desire anything on the earth, why always aiming at galaxy and it's fragments, excellente, keep dreams beyond galaxy, next time, moon may compromise , we can hope, enjoyed fully

[m.s.early]

Thank you Linda. That moon is a mysterious orb indeed. No wonder countless poems have written of it :)

[Ruth]

This is such wonderful imagery...hard to give a review that does it justice! Just know I loved it, and in my library it shall dwell x

[m.s.early]

I think you review went swimmingly Poppy. Thank you for reading and shelving. :)