When winter moon laughs,
the sky shimmers
like sequined cloth,
and the trees reach
their paper leaves
to touch the spangles,
and the laughter bubbles
downward
to distant lacy roots.
And then one day
the tree,
filled with moon fizz,
explodes in green.
Oddments 
November 21, 2021 at 11:40 am
The life cycle of a tree is similar to ours. Hope your Sunday is a lovely one. I wish for some sunshine, but that’s not happening today. I need to embrace gray. 🙂
November 21, 2021 at 12:22 pm
Thanks for the laugh, which I couldn’t help when I read “embrace gray.” Oh, yes, and on so many levels. We are in for a day of cold rain and so I will work at embracing gray today. However, yesterday I dug out my Christmas candles for the front windows and will get those up today. Yesterday I noticed some Christmas lights in the neighborhood, and I felt that the moon the last couple nights was joining right in. So we embrace the grey and fight it all at once, I think. Thank goodness for Christmas lights! We seem to need them earlier than ever!
November 21, 2021 at 10:20 pm
I’ve noticed trees decorated in windows and houses strung with lights for a couple of weeks now. So, I joined the crowd and got out my little trees and the place is rather festive, and I can cope with the gray. A woman has to do what a woman has to do. 🙂
November 22, 2021 at 1:26 am
Definitely! In this case, going with the crowd is an excellent idea, and I bet “festive” is the exact right word for your place. My little candles are in the front windows defying the dark. Yes, we will cope!
November 22, 2021 at 1:42 am
Wonderful tribute to the full moon. It’s such a different view now that the leaves are mostly off the trees.
November 22, 2021 at 9:55 am
Thanks, Dan. I agree: it’s a different world after the leaves have fallen.
November 22, 2021 at 7:33 pm
I was mesmerized by that full moon the other night. YOWZA! I miserably failed at taking a decent photo, so thanks for this.
November 22, 2021 at 7:47 pm
As you can believe, I got more than a few bright white blurs too. It was a gorgeous moon, yes!
November 25, 2021 at 10:39 am
Lacy below, lacy above. Seeing the trees afresh is one of our colder pleasures after the autumn leaves have gone.
November 25, 2021 at 2:22 pm
“Colder pleasures” indeed. The bare trees. intriguing as they are, tend to make me even colder.