Hi Fliss,
That's a cute moon poem and I like the historical and mythological allusions. Did you know that the Moon is actually very dark? Its albedo is 0.12.
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The albedo of the Moon is 0.12. ... As bright as the Moon looks from our perspective here on Earth, the Moon's albedo is actually pretty low. The object with the highest albedo in the Solar System is Saturn's moon Enceladus, which has an albedo of 0.99, which means that it's covered with very reflective snow and ice. —Universe Today
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The Moon's exosphere actually contains neon. Is that cool, or what! Here is a picture of Earthrise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon#/...-Earthrise.jpg
Daudi Dodo is a nice-looking pink dodo, as pink as a flamingo. Do you know the reason why an adult flamingo is pink? It's due to the food that it eats. Baby flamingos are not pink. It takes a while for that color to appear.
Imitation Stars
While you, a fork-tailed swallow, zip to Mars
on winds that energize the emptiness,
I founder under imitation stars,
lamps turning night to day, so minicars
and men can snake their way amid this mess.
While you, a fork-tailed swallow, zip to Mars,
relishing rocket salad grown in jars,
enjoying a low-gravity caress,
I founder under imitation stars
to nap with rats, surrounded by the scars
that score this town of broken bricks — unless
you, swallowing your grudge, will zip to Mars
with me in tow. But, no! Our stormy spars
have flung you to some faraway address
and left me foundering beneath fake stars,
a body renter, loitering in bars,
compelled to let the suits in charge possess
my brain and swallow me. Go zip to Mars.
Why founder under imitation stars?