Thursday, September 23, 2021

Beautiful, unanswerable questions

 

Moonlit Night     Hjalmar Munsterhjelm



Here's another harvest moon poem, this one by Carl Sandburg:

 

Under the Harvest Moon  


Under the harvest moon,

When the soft silver

Drips shimmering

Over the garden nights,

Death, the gray mocker,

Comes and whispers to you

As a beautiful friend

Who remembers.

 

   Under the summer roses

When the flagrant crimson

Lurks in the dusk

Of the wild red leaves,

Love, with little hands,

Comes and touches you

With a thousand memories,

And asks you

Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

 

 


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