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The Moon's Children - A Ghazal MAG
February 26, 2022
Someone has murdered the honest sparrow.
The butterfly broke the bones of the darkness.
The sunrise braided her hair each morning
with ribbons of diamond and ice.
Winter has fallen in love with a wildfire.
The stars have forgotten how to write poems.
The sky has stolen the river’s name.
Love sang the sun to sleep.
Night’s heart is hidden in the frozen fields.
I raced the moon’s children all the way home
© MacMillan
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This poem is a ghazal, an ancient form of poetry that origniated in Arabic poems. Ghazals have a minimum of five couplets and usually no more than fifteen.