NaPoWriMo 2024 – Day 2 – dear Luna

dear luna, 
how you move me 
as if my soul were water
given to tidal swells and ebbs
you call me to sway, to dance 
with my sisters and our mothers,
ancients who reside on veil’s cusp 
summoned by your full kind face
‘round the rhythmic pyre’s crackle 
you’re my North Star, my guide
illumine the darkest of nights, 
full, gibbous, crescent, new
every night I look to you
dear sweet Luna 
I see you
~kat~

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 2 Challenge:

Write a platonic love poem. In other words, a poem not about a romantic partner, but some other kind of love – your love for your sister, or a friend, or even your love for a really good Chicago deep dish pizza. The poem should be written directly to the object of your affections (like a letter is written to “you”), and should describe at least three memories of you engaging with that person/thing.

Poetry Forms used:

On prompt, this is a Letter Poem, but I also added another twist, by creating a Concrete Poem.

Concrete poetry—sometimes also called ‘shape poetry’—is poetry whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem. The words form shapes which illustrate the poem’s subject as a picture, as well as through their literal meaning.

This type of poetry has been used for thousands of years, since the ancient Greeks began to enhance the meanings of their poetry by arranging their characters in visually pleasing ways back in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC.