A sliver of gray cloud slips across
the face of a Long Night Moon.
The first we've seen in decades,
on Christmas night.
I wonder what men saw
on the face of the moon,
before they first saw a man.
Perhaps it was a woman--
not a man--
who first saw this face?
A woman pregnant with child.
A woman who long, long ago,
looked up into the night sky
and saw her lover’s face smiling down on her?
Author Bio:
About Don Cauble, poet Tom Kryss once wrote: “He was born on the Left Bank, under the sign of the bomb, with a cricket in his ear.” He grew up on a small farm in Georgia. He has an MFA from the University of Oregon and he lives in Portland, Oregon. Besides Portland, Don has lived in Atlanta, Tampa, San Francisco, Greece, Denmark. He has published a number of poetry chapbooks through small presses and in 2006, through AuthorHouse, he published his first novel: “This Passing World / Journey From a Greek Prison”. Dancing Moon Press recently published the first full-length selection of his work:“ On the backs of seahorses’ eyes / Journey of a man through time: New and selected poems and other storybook tales 1962-2012”. ” His poems and other writings have been an archetypal and spiritual/soul journey through the passions and bold dramatics of youth to his later poems of self-restraint, openness, and equipoise.
the face of a Long Night Moon.
The first we've seen in decades,
on Christmas night.
I wonder what men saw
on the face of the moon,
before they first saw a man.
Perhaps it was a woman--
not a man--
who first saw this face?
A woman pregnant with child.
A woman who long, long ago,
looked up into the night sky
and saw her lover’s face smiling down on her?
Author Bio:
About Don Cauble, poet Tom Kryss once wrote: “He was born on the Left Bank, under the sign of the bomb, with a cricket in his ear.” He grew up on a small farm in Georgia. He has an MFA from the University of Oregon and he lives in Portland, Oregon. Besides Portland, Don has lived in Atlanta, Tampa, San Francisco, Greece, Denmark. He has published a number of poetry chapbooks through small presses and in 2006, through AuthorHouse, he published his first novel: “This Passing World / Journey From a Greek Prison”. Dancing Moon Press recently published the first full-length selection of his work:“ On the backs of seahorses’ eyes / Journey of a man through time: New and selected poems and other storybook tales 1962-2012”. ” His poems and other writings have been an archetypal and spiritual/soul journey through the passions and bold dramatics of youth to his later poems of self-restraint, openness, and equipoise.
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