{"sf1_id":1235614,"sf2_id":"beb3LXrm","title":"On the Farside","author":"charles_they","words":87,"posted_at":"2017-09-05T03:11:40.000Z","tags":["Love","Melancholy","Moon","Poem","Poetry","Tanka","cycles","lunar"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1235614-on-the-farside","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/beb3LXrm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/15/5a/155a6bca-b844-4503-acbd-eae00f06209c","description":"Lunar cycles! People cycles! Extended and convoluted similes!","content":"### On The Farside\n\nBelow skies unknown\n\nTwo stargazing beasts prowling—\n\nWe meet at sunset.\n\nNew moon bashful like young cubs\n\nCaught laughing in a dark room.\n\nDrawn in, orbiting,\n\nWanderers lost together,\n\nSpinning fast in place.\n\nOur candle burns in reverse;\n\nWax poured into darkened skies.\n\nLike a telescope\n\nYour voice drowns out cosmic noise\n\nDrawing lines 'twixt stars:\n\nMoonlight illuminates all\n\nPaths ahead seem infinite.\n\nThe stars are scattered\n\nWhen we become thunderclouds\n\nThe heavens tremble\n\nAnd bright moon scurries away\n\nShowing only her farside.","series":{"name":"Poetry Postings","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1234503-the-yellowhead.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1238433-type-writer.json"}}