Once In a While

Once in a while the stars wink in the night
sprinkle stardust across the velvet expanse
then sigh in anticipation as their magic 
drifts past the moon in wispy tendrils
curling, twirling, and sliding down
the lazy silver crescent.

Once in a while the moonbeams dance
across  the indigo arc of darkened sky
with stardust trailing on their heels,
and come to rest like feathers, 
on the lake of silken silver  
that ripples softly in the breeze.

Once in a while the silent waves
kiss the softened sable, 
wrap their arms around the rocky shores,
as they lick at lovers’ toes,
and glide back out to sea so peacefully,
leaving silken magic in their wake.

Once in a while Love blooms
like a lotus in the moonlight,
so silently no one even sees it coming,
so softly no one can resist
so completely, two souls are forged as one
sprinkled with stardust and bathed in silk.




march 2004
© Janet Reid