BLUE MOON
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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Seen from Earth,
the Moon looks rather yellow,
but strangely,
when there are two Full Moons
in a month,
the second one is nicknamed
the Blue Moon,
as in an absurd planetary story.
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In the hot summer of 2023,
on the night of August 30-31,
I saw the Blue Moon
(which was also a Supermoon)
appearing crowned by clouds,
so I used my personal airplane
to see it better from above the clouds.
(Greedily admired by Saturn then
and, from Piscis Austrinus,
watched with envy by Fomalhaut,
our natural satellite looked
like a celestial ball
with strange markings
relaxing in Aquarius' pool.)
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Later during another Blue Moon
I visited a lunar colony
and its mayor told me:
-From here
Terra looks rather blue,
but today we call it
the Yellow Earth!
#poetry