Full Moon. Poetry. Lovers and Others.

There has been the most astonishing and beautiful full moon this week. 

The moon is special for lovers,  yet some people don't notice it even if they are up late.

Here are two poems;

no curtains
she looks at the window,
seeing reflections making love
encircled by the moon

awake
he knows the refrigerator landscape,
always a season of plenty
under cold light that soothes his tired eyes
as he gathers a chilled harvest.
he never needs to look out of a window


these two poems come from my collection of poems Blue Moon at the Map Shop. They are published in a handmade seed packet.
You can find them  in my Etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/quarto17

Blue Moon poetry ready for Diffusion Publishing Fair

I have just finished making poetry seed packets, filled with blue moon poetry, ready for the fair at the Diffusion Festival Publishing weekend.

Here's a poem naming each moon;

12 regular moons & one extra
old moon snow moon
crow moon

grass moon planting moon
rose moon

hay moon green corn moon
harvest moon

hunter's moon frosty moon
long night moon

blue moon

Occasionally there are two full moons in a calendar month. The second one is known as a blue moon, although it's not actually blue. I like to think that there are changes and shifts under a blue moon. And where better for the changes to start than in a dusty old map shop, a place that holds so many directions and definitions.

I am bringing the collection to the Diffusion Festival Publishing Weekend at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, on 25th and 26th May. www.diffusionfestival.org

Here are future blue moons, so you can be prepared; July 2015, January & March 2018, October 2020. Be careful not to lose your way.