Land of Mist and Moon

Below is the poem that was just published in the Pen Women anthology Poems of the Super Moon for consideration as a Poem of the week.

 

Land of mist and moon,

            snow and flower,

song-like sounds of the wind

            shiver through trees,

shaking moonlight and moonlit patterns

            on blue white snow,

glittering glaze and shadow shapes --

            midnight artistic masterpiece.

Cowering in shadow with bent head,

            a snowdrop sees only a snowy landscape,

yet a symbol of hope and of death;

close to the ground where death lingers

underneath snow-packed cemeteries,

where layers of dead, dried leaves --

autumn leftovers --

protect root systems that will come alive

            with the spring thaw.

Before sun replaces moonlight

a mist moves in and settles,

curls up like a cat on a fleece blanket

            dreaming of a land of mist and moon,

                        snow and flower.

Dorothy Kamm

Member-at-large of NLAPW.org.
The National League of American Pen Women was founded by five adventurous and ambitious women writers in 1897 because the literary world they wanted to conquer as journalists was exclusively a male domain. Barred from the all-male Press Club, their indignation about such discrimination against women made them decide to do something about it.  Now there are branches all over the United States. Check us out!