﻿A Love Story—Of the Earth and the Moon By Austin P. Torney
Copyright 2012 Austin P. Torney Smashwords Edition Like the
moon, challenge night and gain the light; Like the rose, suffer
the thorn—gain the fragrance; Of life, surrender to live
forever— Enlightened more than a thousand suns. When the moon
throws its cold shadow on us From an eclipse, it shatters the
place That we’ve gotten so used to. By a rare coincidence The
tiny moon snuffs out our star When the sun ‘sets’—at high noon.
My blood runs warm with the sun’s heat at noon. The spirit is
swept by the swelling moon. Air surrounds me. The ocean flows
through me. Earth’s rhythm is always playing my tune. NEW 9TH
PLANET FOUND! Poor Pluto’s been banished to the underworld,
Charon rowing him to the land of the forgotten. Schoolchildren
petitioned for his return, But he was voted off of the solar
island. Memory’s crutch for the order of the planets, Is now
just “MVEMJSUN”— Old Pluto tried so darn hard, its position Now
even closer to the sun than Neptune’s.