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The Sentinels

By Dahni
©️  2022, all rights reserved

the sun brightly beams
reflect in full moon cantaloupe cremes
or so it seems

soon after twilight’s hush
where dreams soon to rush
cantaloupe moon in blush

day pull at the seams
night begins to crush
and silence says to shush
these are the light streams

moon the lunar
deep the crooner
the night tuner

sun the solar
in space roller
and day-time toller

both like a deep space schooner
each a troller
and both a stroller
later or sooner

holders of the twin themes
opposite, but same teams
each to grin and gush
for they make the earth green and lush
each a light wave and particle harpooner
juxtaposed cislunar
and when the moon is interlunar
tis’ with the sun on honeymooner

the twin lights of the sky so beams
that make our hearts to blush
the day adjuster and the night tuner
sun the palm and moon the sole, the surface volar

obsolete centinels or ever present sentinels

Notes: This may be a brand new rhyme scheme I just invented and wrote and am sharing with you.
AAA – BBB – ABBA – CCC – DDD – CDDC – AABBCCDD – ABCD – E (no corresponding rhyme, just associated with the poem’s title.

some words defined:
juxtaposed- placed side by side often for comparison or contrast
cislunar- situated between the Earth and the Moon
centinels- obsolete spelling of sentinel
interlunar- the four-day period between the old and new moon when the moon is not readily visible.
volar – relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot

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from the collection: ‘Letters from Earth’ by the same author