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(No Redaction – No time since I woke from my accidental slumber a few minutes before the next prompt was due, lol!)

 

A red ball of fire lies low, aglow,

Upon an amber bank of clouds so high,

Hesitant to descend where shadows flow,

For countless times it’s graced the endless sky.

Then, in a graceful curtsey, it takes flight,

And coolness shrouds the earth, the day’s retreat,

Venus appears, a gleaming jewel of night,

With shy winks in the midnight’s dark, complete.

The moon’s bright disk now joins the nightly stage,

Bathing all in a silvery-blue embrace,

I wish to follow on this timeless page,

And join the moon in her celestial race.

Yet I remain, an earthbound, dreaming heart,

Yearning for the moon’s nightly, wondrous chart.

Antoinette LeRoux © 2023