Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement)
By Mark A. Murphy
“There is a moon, that rests in the quiet corners
of a lover’s lips.” – Sanober Khan
What matters most to lovers is silence,
the hungry space between
the ‘little death,’ which lasts an eternity –
the place where we find the fragments
we piece together
as if to restore time, the infinite
balance between birth, living/dying
and being reborn in the stars.
Only moonlight knows the hesitation
between loving and longing,
grief and our ability to give ourselves
without recourse to doubt.
So, moonlight on the waves moves us
like the motion of tides
rising and falling within the heart
as we indulge our fancies –
the act of love echoed in the adagio sostenuto,
the interval between kisses
delicately strung, silently
unfolding – night flowers softly embracing
(forever) between two chasms.
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Mark A. Murphy’s poetry publications include To Nora, A Singer of Sad Songs (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2019), and Night Wanderer’s Plea (2019, Waterloo Press). His next two books, Poems: Precepts and Paradoxes and Word Painting are in the pipeline from Cowboy Buddha Press, USA and Eyewear Publishing, UK respectively. His work has been published worldwide in 18 countries in over 200 print and online journals. He is the founder/creator and chief editor of online poetry journal, POETICA REViEW. www.poeticareview.com
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