Spit And Polish

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. - Thoreau

Silver Moon by Sheila Anderson-Hardy

drawn to a metallic destiny

in a led zeppelin

seeking a penny for our thoughts

we visited a silvern moon

writing poetry with the graphite of our souls

oblivious to time

as it breathed a weary patina on all

reminding the night along with everything untarnished and right that

eternity can't come a moment too soon

Author's Note

"It must be allowed that the light of the moon, sufficient though it is for the pensive walker, and not disproportionate to the inner light we have, is very inferior in quality and intensity to that of the sun. But the moon is not to be judged alone by the quantity of light she sends to us, but also by her influence on the earth and its inhabitants. The moon gravitates toward the earth, and the earth reciprocally toward the moon. The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence. I will endeavor to separate the tide in my thoughts from the current distractions of the day. I would warn my hearers that they must not try my thoughts by a daylight standard, but endeavor to realize that I speak out of the night. All depends on your point of view." - Thoreau