Embedded: A Book of Poems

Tethered Moon

Cycling synchronicity

In rising and in setting

Illuminating the night sky

With crescent or full face

Reflects the Sun’s rays

Toward the planet below

Which it loyally befriends

Century after century

Season after season

In a symbiotic journey

Of quite patterned orbit

Around a lone sparkling star.

The tethered Moon

So close but so distant.

Its outline familiar

Yet eerily ghostly at gaze.

A blessing of grace,

Making darkness less formidable

And isolation less threatening

For all who are under its soft white beams.

Old Glory

Rectangular draped

And boldly colored,

It sways gently

With ease in the wind.

The stars a beacon

For choice and