The state of mind of the moon
can be told monthly
in four phases
yet as the jewel that is
always wrapped in mystery
it needs absolute permission
from the clouds … to be felt and seen
in its entire four phases.
Even with an attitude for its dark side
continuously out of sight.
We shall not be judgmental
by being temperamental
in a long hot summer night.
Let’s remain patiently admiring
and rejoicing the Geometry of its light.
Spanish-born Emiliano Martin is the founder and past director of the Philadelphia Poetry Forum and is also former president of the Latin American Guild for the Arts. He has published poems and chapbooks in Spanish and English, including a bilingual collection titled ‘511 Aphorisms of My Humor.’ Since 2007 he has worked by day for an engineering company in Carnegie Center.
