Sanaa at the dVerse Poets Pub has posted this prompt inviting poets to contribute a poem of their choice for Open Link Night, or to write a new one using Emily Dickinson’s The Moon is But a Chin of Gold or the photo below as their muse.

Emily Dickinson’s poem is truly lovely, and so is the photo above. But unlike Dickinson, I always see the moon as silvery, not golden. I wrote a haiku about the moon when it glowed silver and full just for me on my birthday in 2011, and posted about it here in 2016 (original post below). For Sanaa’s prompt, here is a new haiku.

you can count on her
continual ebb and flow
reassuring glow

It was my birthday again this week and my new haiku tribute to the moon is rooted in this different stage of life, one in which I’m much more aware of its rhythms and cycles, but also its uncertainties. I love that we can count on the moon to be there tomorrow, even if everything else is wonky and difficult to understand. Thank you again, dVerse peeps, for helping me process through poetry!

Dear readers, you can find poems submitted by many other poets responding to the prompt here.

Original September 12, 2016 Post: Birthday Haiku

I love haiku.  I’ve blogged about that before.  And I’ve noticed that haiku can beget more haiku – post a haiku or two on Facebook, and a couple of friends may respond in haiku.  It’s magic!  On my birthday in 2011, I was awakened by a super-bright full moon, and posted this haiku on Facebook, which I called Full Moon on My Birthday.

Glowing silver orb
Says “All things are possible.”
Birthday card from God?

One of my friends, an English teacher, responded with a lovely haiku of her own.

a full moon bodes well.
reminds you that the sky’s not
empty after all.

Magic!  This year, another of my friends, also an English teacher, gifted me with a very meaningful and nuanced birthday haiku on Facebook.

Birds call out to you
The garden roots again now
Season of good change.

Magic!

For more Glover Gardens haiku, click here.

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