“Eclipse” is a villanelle which appears in my weekly poetry column, “Poetry Place” at SantivaChronicle.com
Eclipse
Beyond my window blooms the moon
Hangs ripe and full before sunrise
Moonbeams scatter round the room
Awakened from night’s cocoon
Circle of light before me lies
Beyond my window blooms the moon
Over the moon a shadow looms
Watching it grow I’m mesmerized
Moonbeams scatter round the room
Lunar light will darken soon
Earth masks moon as it arrives
Beyond my window blooms the moon
Penumbra passes light resumes
Emerging from its dark disguise
Moonbeams scatter round the room
Serenely shining ancient rune
With the power to hypnotize
Moonbeams scatter round the room
Beyond my window blooms the moon
Lorraine Walker Williams