Moonflowers

October 25, 2023

 

 

night is alive with stars
watching moonflowers’
unfurling petals

I sit among their shadows
my feet trammels dust
waiting for your return

long ago moonbeams
touched my face
or was it you

whispering,
setting my blood roaring
my head spinning.

tonight, a comet tail
arcs across the moon.
I pick moonflowers

leave a petal trail
to my door, listening
for your footsteps.

 

Marilyn Humbert

Marilyn Humbert lives in the Northern suburbs of Sydney NSW Australia. Her Tanka and Haiku appear in many international and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free-verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions and some have been published.

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