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The Woman on the Moon
by James Shammas (Age: 44)
copyright 10-10-2005

Age Rating: 10 to 127

Odd, how one halloween snowstorm
Still lures me from my chaperoning--
Our playful trick-or-treating--
Toward a once bright springtime spot.

Under an arching, weeping willow tree,
I slumber there: on a moulded mound,
Near a broken swing, reaching the bone-white
Frigid fingers, their pallid pink round

Frayed and splintered strings, just able
To yoke the new, white crescent moon--
Womb-curved-- tipping its silver cradle,
Rocking a new-born weeping widow, soon

Falling in her finest feathered flurries.
It is just a sprinkling-- a gentle dusting--
Etching her epitaph on faceless slabs.
She does this for me-- the lost and undead--

That even the blackest marble stone
Weds the lightest air-borne light;
That festered feet fly from dead men's legs,
Treading softer, star-bound heights.

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11-12-2006 Richard Reed Jr

A very surrealistic painting in words with fine imagery.

Haunting and nostalgic.

Good rhythm and flow

very professional my friend,

Rich

11-03-2006 David Pekrul

My interpretation is that someone is visiting a spouse or mother who died. I may be wrong, but that is what I got out of this. It is a soft and eerily written piece, yet rather comforting in a strange sort of way.
Very good.

10-27-2006 Deborah Thomas

I like the way this one grows on you as you read it out loud. It's mesmerizing. Hard to grasp, but interesting enough to make you want to read it again and again to feel each scene as it plays out. My favorite part?
"Falling in her finest feathered flurries.
It is just a sprinkling-- a gentle dusting--
Etching her epitaph on faceless slabs.
She does this for me-- the lost and undead-- "
Thank you so much for adding this one to my contest entries. Debbie

10-21-2005 Paul Gardner

GREAT POEM KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

10-19-2005 Toni Sweeney

This is a really good poem. I could see a skelton sitting there under the tree in the snow storm. I guess I know what not to do when halloween comes. During halloween here there is always snow. it's always on the ground and some times it's even snowing as we go trick a treating. Keep up the great work.
Toni Sweeney

10-16-2005 Paul Gardner

10 out of 10

10-11-2005 Regina Pate

I am not for sure but it seems as if someone has found himself in his child and it is as if he is reborn with him. Am I right. Great write, I love Halloween. Trick or Treat. lol

Gina

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The Woman on the Moon by James Shammas (Age: 44) copyright 10-10-2005 Age Rating: 10 to 127

The Woman on the Moon
by James Shammas (Age: 44)
copyright 10-10-2005

Age Rating: 10 to 127