Selene and the boy

[Ca ne fait rien]

I am a sucker for Moon poems. They are universal, and the stuff of lyrical poetry. I even have a guilty fondness for Walter de la Mare, whose house was not so far from where I live, and who had a splendid view from his garden, out to the Surrey Hills. I can even swallow 'shoon', but I would not try to slip that past Leanne, until her taste has been properly blunted:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/silver/



Selene was the girl-friend of Sappho, to whom many of her poems are addressed, and if anyone misssed it, the word (or sometimes Selena) was the Greek word for Moon.

Cheers Abu- something about the boy made me think of Endymion, which was why I titled Selene. It was a stunning sight, the moonlight falling on the sea like that, and the boy (past his bedtime) paying a kind of homage. Of course it was one of the few times I was without my camera.
I concur, the moon is a universal icon. It is hard to find something new to say, but somehow it is always necessary to say something

I always loved that Walter de la Mare- especially 'shoon'. Do children still get fed W de la M? If not, they should.

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Thanks for reading and for your kind comments and suggestions, AA, appreciate it.

@John- thanks John for the kind comments.