Vitality 10 – the Moon

 
 
 
The Moon.  It’s followed us around for ages – hanging there, beguiling. Her silvery face indifferent, or so we think. But what do we feel about the Moon?  Her twelve faces that pull the tides, make canines howl and divide the year. My friend, poet Shaun Traynor has just published an exquisite collection of thirteen poems ‘Savannah and her Thirteen Moons’  as an A6 booklet. It’s truly lovely and has been designed by artist Roelof Bakker. Shaun wrote the poems, one a month in 2019, and posted them on Facebook.  Now, in the final moons of his life, he has dedicated them to his granddaughter Savannah.
 
Here is 
 
September: The Harvest Moon
 
The Harvest Moon is the name given traditionally 
 to a full moon rising in September; 
and traditionally, it was during September 
that most of the crops were harvested ahead of the autumn
and this moon gave light to farmers
so that they could carry on working longer in the evening.
So, The Farmers’ Moon? No; I rename this moon:
 
The Migrants’ Moon
 
Work on
migrants in the field;
I give you late-light-
complete the task before I wane again
and grass grows brown and you must return. 
 
 
Shaun Traynor
 
 
Presented by Jan Woolf – published by – 
 

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