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    Moonlit Child
    Moonlit Child
    Moonlit Child
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    Moonlit Child

    By Richard Michael Parker

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    'Moonlit Child' is the fourth volume of poetry and digital art by Richard Michael Parker.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Michael Parker
    Release dateJul 31, 2017
    ISBN9781370165230
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      Moonlit Child - Richard Michael Parker

      Index

      01. Hilo: Pearl

      02. Hoaka: If You Should Come To Me In Dreams

      03. Ku Kahi: Come As You Are

      04. Ku Lua: Moonlit Child

      05. Ku Kolu: Star Bright

      06. Ku Pau: Diamond Eyes

      07. Ole Ku Kahi: Loved By The Moon

      08. Ole Ku Lua: The Perigee Of Early Spring

      09. Ole Ku Kolu: Forevermore

      10. Ole Pau: Footprints In The Sand

      11. Huna: Dancing With The Stars

      12. Mohalu: Moontree

      13. Hua: Paramour

      14. Akua: A Chinese Theme

      15. Hoku: The Silken Gown

      16. Mahealani: Moonlight

      17. Kulu: Elegie

      18. La'au Ku Kahi: Strawberry Moon

      19. La'au Ku Lua: Autumn

      20. La'au Pau: The Huntsman's Moon

      21. Ole Ku Kahi: The Swaddling Cloth Of Innocence

      22. Ole Ku Lua: Opalescence

      23. Ole Pau: Angelic Sleeper

      24. Kaloa Ku Kahi: Winter Moon

      25. Kaloa Ku Lua: Loves Long Lost Souvenir

      26. Kaloa Pau: Dark Butterfly

      27. Kane: The Mirrored Maid

      28. Lono: The Moon She Weeps Before The Sun Has Risen

      29. Mauli: The Willow's Song

      30. Muku: My Dear Poetic Friend

      Hilo

      -Pearl-

      The pearl sat brightly in the slim palm of her hand, spent in droplets, a jewel of sentiment, where silence invades the cavalcade of redolent ease, all measure pleased... Teased between the fingertips of some supple touch.

      How he loved her. She would never understand, the depth of his heart like distant sands slipping through the fingers of a grasping hand...

      The sweeping chasms of eternity turned upon themselves, into a sky replete with fiery stars, the comets sweep, the glimmer of God's eye, beaming with delight upon the waters between them. Moonlit dappled dreams, swimming in halcyon streams of love, so silent, no brook in feathered meadow had ever run so still. A quiescence unspeakable, no word could share the shallow breath unheard, unspoken, this union in a dream unbroken.

      Ever has it been the same, that ember glow doth warm the night, the silent thread in each hearth made bright by decadent fires born below, licking upon the air in the distant hollow of the darkness, tongues of desire, snapping at the clouds,

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