Luna – For the Solar Eclipse in America Tomorrow

Tutmoses gazing ‘cross the Nile

saw your image on the water

Cleopatra held Antony’s hand

and kissed it by your light

Nero plucked his lyre

while you shined on burning Rome

Did Mehmet look upon your face

atop the walls of Byzantium?

You shined that night

on Santa Maria

and when they came for Atahualpa.

Watched the Sioux ghost dancing

as the Mahdi prayed outside Khartoum.

Cixi sat in her pavilion, drank tea and reminisced.

Did your visage rend the hearts

along the Volga that  Christmas?

Watching a young Romeo

caress the breasts of Juliet

you shined on me as well tonight.

Am I one with the infinite?

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and Toritto was there to view the last one in 1979

Photo is public domain: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=12209&picture=moon-sea-cliff&large=1

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