Ray Garman

Water from the Moon

Nothing for wanting
my purpose just starting,
I’ll be back among the hills
I will always know as home.

My sun is going to set
and I’m going to get,
sweet peace,
when I lay my head
back among the mountains.

Water from the moon,
drinking from this fountain,
I’ll get water from the moon,
drinking from this fountain.

Life’s so lovely
when the summer sun
lights my way,
the winter’s moon
blazes full and makes my way,
north star lights for me,
gives me life, feeds my soul
opens the door to everlasting
charm that keeps from harm.

The land gives these gifts
and beyond compare
I am grateful for an eventual.

Keeps me safe through times of trouble,
the hope that lives in each of us,
and we shall be,
the simple ones we choose.

Water from the moon, drink my full,
water from the moon,
nothing for wanting,
purpose just starting,
I’ll be back among the hills
I will always know as home,
my sun is going to set
and I’m going to get
sweet peace,
when I lay my head
back among the mountains.

Water from the moon,
drinking from this fountain,
I’ll have water from the moon,
drink my full
of water from the moon,
back among the mountains
drinking from this fountain
water from the moon.

Ray Garman is a poet and photographer, an activist and an entrepreneur.  Ray has read and performed his works around the world including at Robin’s Bookstore/Moonstone Arts Center, (Philadelphia), The Bowery Poetry Club (New York), The Nuyorican Poets Café (New York), Neither Nor (New York), The Knitting Factory (New York), Shakespeare & Company (Paris), City Lights (San Francisco), The Fringe Club (Hong Kong), St. Marks Poetry Project (New York), La Mama Theater (New York), The Café (Nairobi), Burning Man (Black Rock City) and in Beijing, Shanghai, Hanoi, Hoi Chi Minh City and along the Hoi Chi Minh Trail, among other hot spots, known and unknown, for spoken word. Ray graduated from Haverford College and is a father. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, Crossing Waters.