Blue Moon Reverie, by Darrell Petska

Blue Moon Reverie, by Brent Skinner (USA) 2018

Blue Moon Reverie

Blue Moon,
again we meet
at the sentineled wood,
the dance of light beyond,
from which, before,
we’ve always moved on,
each to our own next day.
Yet, haven’t we known
this moment would come?
I must gain passage through.

Highborn friend, play your light
through the sentinels’ boughs
that I might find my way
to that shimmery place.
My heart longs to abide
in such mystical shine.
Adieu then, yet when next
you greet the night, lend ear:
if still I have body to sing,
hear my unworldly song.

Darrell Petska

Darrell Petska, a retired university engineering editor and Wisconsin poet, has published in journals such as The Ekphrastic Review, Third Wednesday Magazine, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Verse-Virtual (see conservancies.wordpress.com). Petska is collaborating with Brent Skinner, who lives in Minnesota and has an estate planning and probate law practice in Wisconsin. Skinner's passion is creating works of art. A serendipitous encounter reunited poet and artist after their lives diverged more than 50 years ago.