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Last Quarter, Waning Crescent
Contributed by
spike
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Saturday, 14th May 2005 @ 01:25:14 AM in AEST
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Last Quarter - Three weeks after new, one-half of the Moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. Sometimes called Third Quarter.
Waning Crescent -During the fourth week, the Moon is reduced to a thin sliver and the Moon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight. This Moon can be seen after the Last Quarter Moon and before the New Moon. The crescent will grow smaller and smaller every day, until the New Moon.
Remaining moon, in last primary phase,
Still entrancing us with your ways
Three quarters though your familiar orbit
Arcing silently in great transit
It's been an age since lunation,
Now slowly drawing to completion.
Inconstant moon, ceaseless motion,
Yours phases vexing Terra's oceans
Maiden, Mother, and finally, Crone
In your cycle not alone
For there are lessons in your trajectory,
We see in it our own mortality.
Thinning sickle, intermediate,
But no less an aspect of this circuit
Your devil's horns are waning tips
That signal journey's full ellipse
Still holding gracefully to the night,
Your passing is a mournful sight.
Dying Hecate, your time is nearing,
The cloak of shadows you are wearing
Draws you in at journey's end
The cycle's poised to begin again
Sic transit Gloria, too soon,
Thus passes away the glory of the Moon.
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Re: Last Quarter, Waning Crescent
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by Kyarn on
Saturday, 14th May 2005 @ 04:45:06 AM AEST
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| That's beautiful! I haven't yet, but I'll have to read the other 3 in the series... |
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