Rising Sun, Rising Moon

Shooting the Moon Oh moon What have you done? Collecting penalties  On captured hearts.  Discarding them Once again.   Placed aside Till some later time When they may serve  Your purpose again.   You are no better than a common thief Betting on tricks in  blackjacket.  Playing hearts for fun.  Know this dear gambler of mine, The Ace of my heart Will not be played So easily.  Perhaps that was what you wanted, all along.  DRH Copyright 2021 Donna R Hedges  

Birdie Sweet satisfaction Perfect connection Club meets ball Sailing through Warm golden air Green glowing breeze Perfect arc Straight and true Soft thump.   One heartbeat Birds rejoice Deer parade Sweet Meditation Perfect Syncopation DRH Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

Safe Moon shine Peeking through.  Across my hand.   Silver glimmer Promise of Clarity Warmth Beauty.   Softly, gently Slowly. With great trepidation.   Fingers rake the folds.   A ray of light  Hope? Fear.   If I show my hand.  My greatest weakness.  Expose my heart.   Will I Be shot down? Again? Trust myself? I dare not.  For so often  I have been wrong.  All I know of love  Is that it hurts to give.   to receive.   Safe  on my shores Is where you’ll find me.   Releasing fabric.  Stepping back Into the dark Once more.   DRH Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

Distance With distance great Time is sweet Peaches ripe Ever fleeting.  Taste the nectar Burst inside Juices quench Lover’s sigh Warmth enfold Deep embrace Rest awhile Sharing grace. All too soon The time has come Fingers release Bittersweet and succumb Wishing for Swift passage until Once again  Hold you, I will.  D.R.H. Copyright Donna Roseanne Hedges 2021

Downstream Flowing Sliding Slipping at times. Correct Redirect Divine path of mine? It’s waiting I hear Just a round The bend.  Cherished? Or not.   I wish it would end.   But when we arrive,  I know that it’s true.   The journey is all that is waiting for you.    D.R.H. Copyright Donna R. Hedges 2021

Sunrise The gentle morning light  holds me in it’s glow Comfort is its whole embrace Almost as if it knows  That today I really needed hope Please don’t let me go Soft as blushing rose Petals on my eyes Soothing all the bittersweet Falling from my sighs.    D.R.H. Copyright Donna R. Hedges 2021

Come Daylight Come the daylight I begin To doubt myself I go within and without. Stay strong Stay strong  Hold your truth  Stay the course Set out for you Turn your face into the sun And do not stop  until you  are  done.  DRH Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

Reflection  What has been created  In this living space of we? What about common good, love and charity? Taking what we need Never looking in the eye Of a fellow human being Struggling to get by. If I don’t look too close Somehow they’ll disappear And I won’t have to see  myself reflected there.   DRH Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

Moon to Fiery sun Fiery Sun You have been my light But I am ever bent To react to sweet supplications With an ever nasty rant Why should I be any different from those Who’ve done the worst to me Who cares about being loved? Love is treachery.   DRH Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

Oh Moon Oh Moon I wish that I Could offer up to you Comfort    in your agony What I wouldn’t do for you Powerless am I  And may only off up My prayers and incantations That will never be enough Your weary shores Hold back your tears Oh strength and fortitude Hand to me your soul’s despair I will cry them all For you. DRH  Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

  The Moon in Reply My darling, it Could never be  For you would eventually  Devour me And so we sit Eons away Space staring us  This place to stay.  DRH   Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

  The Sun’s Litany My light Forever bright Proud and true Would surely know If he was untrue? His words a balm to Desperate ears My body only What he holds dear? Oh heart, emotions be Craving sweet shore Of security Safe arms to pull me close Cherish my heart My essence close Play and laugh With carefree joy Dance our hearth  Not destroy My warmth is strong  to warm us both Our compliment  Will balance out My heat your strength Face as one Our sacred Earth Lest she be undone DRH Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

  The Moon’s Defence Alas my love  You are unfair To you I’ll always be Reflecting only  Love’s sweet breath Given from you to me I am only  a rock that carries  tides and fleets of men I do not contain  your passionate gaze And cannot even pretend You must have  me confused  With a dream  from your youth No self respecting  moon I know Has ever kept  that pace My innocent shine  is lovely to see And everyone  does exclaim  Never there was  a more decent globe  than this one  in your domain And more,  it’s true,  My poor  rock heart does protest So very sad  and worried by  your ungrateful express To you,  I never said that I Would honour and protect My promise was  only that I would caress  your lovely breast D.R.H. Copyright Donna R Hedges 2021

The Sun’s Lament to the Moon By the dimming of the firelight  I see a lovely glow Arising from  the still dark night His light to me  does show But only in  the darkest hours Stolen moments  before he rests Oh harsh moon how can you be  so cruel so rare,  so full my breast my heart is merely fuel.  Don’t bring me gentle promises Don’t mock me with your light Appearing as  the answer to  a cold  and endless night. Bright shine  and beautiful Ever  to offer more? Have I  broken your cold heart? Have you cast me  on your shore? Oh moon.    I want you  by my side, But I am  the fiery sun. The two  never to collide. Illusions cast Grasping rays  of moonlight empty hands. Maybes  and dreams  carried away  on the heat  of rising dew Sun breaking fast. Anew.  Renew.  D.R.H. copyright Donna R. Hedges 2021