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Mooning

Posted on by Shaily Agrawal

Midnight. At the windowsill,

Moon reminds me.

Sprinkling silver pixie dust,

Lighting up the path

For Words to find me.

…

Sleep spreads its blanket

On the neighbouring bed.

Enraged Jealousy urges me

To shake awake

The Sleepyhead.

…

Muse nudges the

Story hiding within.

Spying the pen, she retreats,

Fearful of the ever-

judging Punctuation.

…

Sleep warns Desperation–

Inching towards her patrons

to seek help.

Sense prevails.

Who wants grumbly audience?

…

Responsibility cautions

To wait for the first light.

Unacceptable though,

I watch Moon sitting on the windowsill,

Sprinkling moonlight.

Author’s note: I have not learnt writing poetry, but I dabble with it sometimes.

  • I have tried a 1-2, 1-2-3 dancing style here.
  • Personification is meant to build a crowd on an otherwise quiet, lonely night.
  • I have also tried shape-writing to bring a sense of repetition where you return from where you start.

Please let me know which part of it worked and what sucked. :)

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I am an Instructional Designer, avid reader, small-town woman and working mother with a fish-eye perspective. I have just published my first book, The Forest Bed and other short stories. If you like my stories on this blog, feel free to Like, Comment, Reblog and Share. You can reach me at shailygrwl@gmail.com or through my Facebook page facebook.com/shailyagrawalwrites/

15 thoughts on “Mooning”

  1. Such a beautiful and imaginative poem! I love how you brought the inanimate objects to life and created a vivid scene of a moonlit night. The way you played with personification and shape-writing is very creative. Can you share more about your inspiration for this specific style of writing and how you approached creating the dancing rhythm in your verses?

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    1. Hello! Thank you for all the praise. It was a spur of the moment piece–I am not a “learned poet”.
      I chose personification because when people sleep, things look more alive with the moon shining on them. Shadows move and everything has eyes.
      Writing in short lines, each separating a part of thought, is something I do out of habit. I like the 1-2-1-2-3 theme because it is not a usual rhyming of 1-2, 1-2. Though rhyming is optional for me. If it happens, good. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.
      Shape-writing was intentional and done at the end because I wanted to close the circle and came back to where I started. I have done some shape-writing earlier in Lantern (Japanese writing style) and in a piece about waves, so I know how it moves a reader when they can “see” what they read.

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  2. My dear Shaily.
    Your poem feels truly perfect, Writing is about giving shape to the emotions of the soul, and you do it beautifully: every image breathes life and sensitivity, as if the whole night turned into a stage full of characters.
    What you say, and the way you say it, conveys truth, and that’s what makes poetry great. 💖🌷

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  5. I like the visual aspect of it [given that I was trained as a Designer, many years ago] but I’m not best placed to rate the poetry, as I’ve never really ‘got’ poetry ;) I’m more interested in how I can use language for non-fiction. Cheers, Jon.

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