--"Diana's Cat" (© 1996-2016 by Cheryl Robertson)
In many legends the act of healing or exorcisms involved muttering in some dead language, such as Ancient Egyptian, Gaelic or Latin. The ritual usually involved burning incense or Herbs; lighting candles; gathering plants for potions; making mysterious gestures and chanting under the light of the Moon. Here is an incantation to the Mistress of the Night, our Moon.
This Poem, or incantation has it's history in the old Diana worship.
(Diana was one of the Roman Moon Goddesses.)
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Read the text version of "Full Moon"
| The moon, methinks, looks with a wat'ry eye; And when she weeps, weeps every little flower; --William Shakesphere |
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Fly Not Yet - by Thomas Moore (1806) 
Read the text version of "Fly Not Yet" The Moon - by Robert Louis Stevenson Read the text version of "The Moon"
Poems by Carl Sandburg Famous Chinese Prose Poem from Shih Ching
(from the book of Odes and folk songs,
composed between 1100 and 600 B.C.)
Famous Moon Poem by Edgar Allen Poe Sonnet of the Moon by Charles Best, 1608
| Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle, |
Links to Other Great Moon Poems
The Web Home of Moon Lovers! These Poems are in Chinese
(for asian poets publishing on the Web)
For many artists from Vincent Van Gogh's "The Starry Night"; Henry Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy" and for Russian born artist Marc Chagall, art seems the perfect medium to merge imagination with the substance of life--in the language of symbolism. The sense of surreal wonderment is forever conspicuous in the paintings of Marc Chagall, as the Moon looms in some form or another through much of his art in an almost childlike and poetic fantasy. Cows are seen jumping over the moon, fiddlers are playing and Chagall's dreams take on a new reality through the eyes of his inner child. The Moon is many things to many people!
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Links to Moon Art The works of David Delamare
David is a superb artist with lots of absolutely fabulous works of "Moon Art".
Note: Due to the unstable nature of the links previously here, all of them
have vanished. I am putting a new list together. Please check back, and
write me if you
know of any good "Moon Art" links!
The Moon in the Arts | Whole Moon Home Page
© 1996-2016 Cheryl Robertson at Moonlight Systems
All Rights Reserved
o the poet in search of enchantments, the rhythm of the Moon is a spell. The Moon is full of magical musical spells and witchery, and is an eternal source of mystic inspiration for the magician-artist, songwriter and poet. Its woeful influence injects an air of pandemonium at each full moon. Dreamers chase dreams, lovers seek romance and artists seek inspiration by the light of the Moon. The Moon lends an air of surreal wonderment to the artist and storyteller in search of a magical world, as the Queen of the nocturnal sky inspires our imaginations and bends our emotions. 