Cover by Jamie Hogan
Nancy Passmore has been publishing The Lunar Calendar for 42 years! As the website (thelunapress.com) states, the calendar is dedicated to the goddess in her many guises. Please go to the website for ordering information and prices.
What is a lunar calendar, you might ask? Wikipedia www.wikipedia.com says:
A lunar calendar is a calendar based upon cycles of the Moon‘s phases (synodic months), in contrast to solar calendars whose annual cycles are based only directly upon the solar year.
As I was unable to obtain some of the poems inside the calendar, I am posting one from my classmate, Mary Lou Meyers, my virtual poetess-in-residence.
(Her full name is Marie-Louise Meyers.) She just happened to send this when I needed it!
Photo from www.space.com
Moon Glow
by Marie-Louise Meyers
How the Moon contrives to build a pathway,
how it picks up stray stars along the way
to light up on Earth, a Milky Way.
How it fails to display its true wares,
instead lights a fire within
where each thing stands
in its passageway of desire.
If only in its solicitude it could sing
a multitude of songs with a moon beam in,
its longing transcends earthly requirements
for it has white magic to bring.
How everything we see is on a lighted stage,
the tree, the humble dwelling magnified in sight.
How troubling it is all when day light comes on
with its streaming sequence of events
when all that was at a standstill is turned on,
and the land of enchantment gone!
When there is too much light,
how easily we lose our way
through the blight.
How everything in Moon light is so well-defined,
we can’t stray from its confines
as if it leads to a staircase Heavenward bound
where all will be explained.
The tracks it lays are so exact
but then there are things that get in the way,
that leave shadows that can’t be displayed alone,
but must be honed from the light it disowns.
Soon there will be Nothing but Moon Brightness
to carry me Home and with it a Kind of Lightness,
i have never before owned.
