LUNULA

(LUN-you-la)

 

My Moon sign is the Moon

It is like a personal rune

With Earth’s satellite I often commune

This lovely celestial body bright as a doubloon

 

In ancient Rome the female nobility

Wore lunula amulets for fertility

But also protection against male virility

As they searched for mates with compatibility

 

Actually, a bronze calendar

Moon phases to help women remember

Tides of seas and menses the center

Of bodies ripe for surrender

 

Those worries are gone for me

Yet, I still live rhythmically

Dark of the Moon? Live quietly

But perigee and apogee are the key

 

So all this is to say

3 a.m. shopping is okay

Stuff unneeded but they outweigh

Boredom, and take the mind away

 

To a world of imagination and Moonlore

(Cease looping and move through an unknown door)

 

© 2024 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE: My Lunula amulet

 

No matter our age, it is always good to connect our female energy with the lunar cycle.  Here’s my poem and I recommend, if you enjoy the Horror Genre, Elizabeth Hand’s Waking the Moon. But don’t use your lunula like her antagonist does in the book! She also wrote the excellent book A Haunting on the Hill, based on Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.