A full moon night in a forest

The full moon
smiles through a canopied, leafy screen
of the chir-pine forest

to light a tiny lamp

for some soul caught in depressing swamp,

To light a heart gone all dark and damp.

The crickets jingle

to mingle

with a broken dream's notes stale,

And compose songs to fill up the little dale.

The mountain wind drums,

Silence hums

a song using hardly pine needles,

An owl mischievously twiddles

the brooding shadows with its hoot,

Unconcerned the wind plays its song,

Unbothered of the mysterious shadows

that throng

the looming swabs of darkness

around the moony raylets

filtering through the canopy,

It's a tune of mother nature's

unbound hilarity

unmatched in parity.

The dew-crowned wilderness,

The music fragrant,

Intoxicating,

A natural brew against dark fate's bite,

A soft, fragrant heart's culinary delight,

The bushy growths looking up at the trees' height

to become a stalwart tree

and kiss someday the air all free.

There are corners where 

no sunrays come kissing earth,

They miss the morning mists of the valley,

Life and living longing to bloom up

with joy and energetic girth,

The secluded corners look at the moon

for some solace and soul's boon,

The sun is too shiny and still shuns them,

The moon they can cajole and caress.

The peaks around

looming with a pride unbound,

Then the moony beauty caresses

their hard edges,

They melt and abandon their arrogance's badges,

The highest of the high

surrender their arrogance 

with a palpable sigh.

The play of the moon on the darkness,

A mystical combo of white and dark,

Light gently creeps into

the folds of darkness,

Not trying to annihilate it,

Just zestfully temper with it a bit,

So that it melts somewhat

to pleasant shades of gray.

A lovely transformation in a mountain forest

on this full moon night,

There are hearts that can delight

in these subtle shades,

The day hides so many things

which now come out for freedom and liberation,

Free from all prying eyes

and dry, dreadful sighs.