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The Goddess In Winter Light
The Goddess Luna
In The Winter Light Is Such
A Wonderful Sight!
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Small All White in the Forest)
"I am no barrier to its sun; the light and I are as one!"
My Poetic Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: This poem is an homage to The Goddess Luna (The Moon).
By the way, the image illustrating this poem is what inspired this poem! And I took this photograph of the moon, as seen through a tree decorated with miniature lights, on February 19th, 2011, which is the same day that I originally published this poem on my "Small All White in the Forest" blog.
However, when I republished this poem on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog, I did not utilize the original publishing date. You see, I was trying to keep all of the republished posts from my various blogs in as chronological of an order as I could manage—while still grouping relevant blog posts together—and that is why I republished this poem on March 6th, 2022 on my new "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog, which I created in order to have "a place to place all of my best writing in one place!"
Thus, early March is still considered to be "winter," because the first day of spring is not officially until March 19th, or 20th, or 21st, of each year; but I consider February as the last month of winter and I also consider March as the beginning of "spring" with the Spring Equinox, or "The First Day of Spring," being the 'official first day' of spring, rather than the literal first day of spring!
And this poem was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
This "Small All White in the Forest" Post No. 133 was edited on April 7th, 2024.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
My poems that are Haiku in their style—within which one stanza is composed of three lines, where each line has words containing five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables, respectively—are a lot more like Senryū poems in that the topic of these poems is typically about people, rather than the topic of these poems being about nature, as is usually the case in classic Haiku poems. And that is why I call these types of poems "Haiku-style." –Paul Whiting [September 19th, 2023]
