It slowly creeps across the sky prowling for escapades, that hungry moon. <br />Darling, come with me, flirt with the night, I’ll protect you from that hungry moon. <br /> <br />We’ll dance the habanera and let it have its way with us all the night. <br />Then we’ll slip into the darkness under the shadow of that hungry moon. <br /> <br />With the conversation of the dance we’ll outshout cries from that hungry moon. <br />Together we’ll evade the ever-watching eyes of evry hungry moon. <br /> <br />We’ll outrun the loneliness that has stalked us throughout the slow-turning day. <br />A long day awaited, gobbled up during the night by a hungry moon. <br /> <br />We’ll look into the dream-lit stars until we’re dizzy, remember this night. <br />We’ll head for the shadows where it is darkest, away from the hungry moon. <br /> <br />With the swooping and snatching of an owl as it seizes its frozen prey, <br />I will not leave you in the shadows of the night or prey to that hungry moon. <br /> <br />Like a yelping dog, with the name of Ben, we’ll be racing across the ridge. <br />Encircled in my arms I’ll protect you then from that ever-hungry moon. <br /> <br /> - April 4, ’08 <br />Pulbished by The Ghazal Page online <br />Go to: www.ghazalpage.net/2008/moon_challenge/2008_moon_radif.html<br /><br />Ben Gieske<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hungry-moon-ghazal/
