Lover's Moon

For National Poetry Day 2012

I thought that, when at last
men walked upon the moon
and radiated back
the arid data stream,
poetic lovers everywhere
would lose love's potent symbol.

In the event, pragmatic men
looked back across the void
to earth and saw
raw poetry.

Just As

Just as the lover finds, who only
loves if loved, the truth of love
is unconditional.

Just as the sculptor, who can dream
the form inside the marble block,
will come to know the chiselled space
within the form.

Just as the painter, who has used the life
to copy life, will ultimately live
in pure white canvasses.

So will the poet learn to sing
his songs in silence,
ceasing to insert his words
between desired and known.