NaHaiWtiMo 2026 Week 4 Celestial / Vastness

 

22. SOLSTICE

we witches

dance in circle –

the year turns

23. NEBULA

reading Just Kids …

contemplating coloured clouds

in outer space 

24. ECLIPSE

eclipse –

along with the dark

silence

25. ZENITH

the sun

at its height, and I

sinking

26. AURORA

cold childhood nights –

woken to see those flashes

of eerie green

(I grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, where the 

Aurora Australis was occasionally, though rarely, 

visible, and my parents insisted I must view it.)

27.TIDE

a sunny day –

on the outgoing tide

my friend’s ashes

28. HORIZON

far over the sea

or drawn close by the mountains –

the same horizon?

*

(1)

always

further to travel –

frustration!

(2)

still

further to travel –

such a comfort!

(3)

again

further to travel –

inspiring!

(I don’t mean for readers to choose a 

favourite of these. They are intended as a 

sequence: contradictory perhaps, yet all valid.)

*

moonlight on water 

bridging the horizon –

a beckoning path