POEM STARTER
Moonshine and Moonlight
Write a poem which centres on these words. How can you pair these similar words with very different meanings in a poem?
A Midnight Soirée
Under the lunar disco ball
We moonlight as the eldritch
Insatiable, untamable
A kaleidoscope of the bewitched
Find us in our dance
Parallel to gravity
Bodies swaying, decaying
In a carnal rhapsody
The fire mimics our movements
In the moonshine’s reflection
Swirling, pouring
Pleading for our attention
Dripping down icy lips
Seeping into the dirt
Sinking, drinking
Us for all we are worth
The dirt, where we collapse
Battered and revitalized
Feeling, healing
Sleeping under navy skies
Until the sun stings our skin
That we’re forced to shed,
To join the land of the living, the unforgiving
Where all of the souls lie dead