Miranda* Poetry by Josie McQuail
19 May, 2010
What portends
The bruiséd Moon
Ringed by circles
Green, gold, dull violet?
Violent events,
Violent love?
Is it a blinded eye
In the sky,
The sightless eye
Of a blinded god
Too disturbed by
events on this earth
to survey it?
Yes, it must be
The eye of God
Glancing off clouds
Telling me
I know not what . . .
Petroleum circles
In the heavens
Pollution of earth
Ascending to sky.
Could a god survey this earth,
Wondering,
As a child wonders
at the beauty
Of gas-stained puddles
On the streets
Bleeding out
Their muted colors
In perfect circles?
--- j.a.mcquail
*”Miranda” comes from the word, “To wonder.” In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Miranda is the character who exclaims, “O Brave New World,/That has such people in’t!”
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