New Moon - Embracing Shadow

 New Moon, Dark and Cold

Sister to the Light

Moving through the winter sky

On this Star filled night

 

In the darkness there is a void

Holding secrets we can feel

Magic from another realm

Or tragedy concealed

 

We’re drawn to find you

When most wouldn’t even look

No fame like phases of your siblings

No mentions in most books

 

New Moon, No Glow

No Lovers look upon you

Nor gaze into your face

And admire your lovely hue

 

Instead thieves and madmen

And wandering bands of soulless

Take advantage of your shadow

Enjoy this night of deadness

 

They commit themselves to crimes

Believing prisons cannot connect them

For in absence of the light

The mirror holds no reflection.

 

New Moon, Solid at your Core

Light and Shadow quite subdued

All who fear the light or darkness

Find solace prostrate before you

 

The Shadow Muse plays beneath your rays

Bending time and light

The fairies dance with sweet romance

Setting their hay bales alight

All woodlands play in shadow foray

Knowing this special night

There will be an answer from the Forest Blade Dancer

Who fiddles and diddles delight

So in the New Moon, set out your runes

And join in the sacred dance

Be pure of heart, and you will start

To feel the heat and fire of romance

If a cold wind should blow through the ice and snow

Know the fires still burn from within

And keep bundled up tight, by your own firelight

Crack a window for the fairies and kin.