Category: La Lune 1999 – 2008

Written November 2007
I turned the light off in the kitchen before and was holding my three year old daughter Kahleah Celeste in my arms, admiring the full moon that was rising straight outside the window.

We talked about the ring surrounding it and how bright the moon was and how stunning the clouds looked crossing the moon’s path.

All of a sudden she turned to me, grabbed my face between her little fat hands, peered at me earnestly from the tip of my nose and said

I laughed my head off and we then seriously discussed how I could put the moon in the corner of her room so that it wouldn’t get dark and the scary shadows would go away. So my baby girl and the rising full November moon inspired this simple little children’s night time poem I just wrote.

Can you put the moon in my room mum
can you put the moon in my room
it is bright and shiny and full of light
can you put the moon in my roomIt is hanging out there in the coldest night
The glow of a beacon that turns dark into bright
With a blue ring halo that is such a delight
surrounded by flickers of colours competing in fighta meteor streaks across, in a fast flash of white
Oh look there’s a spaceship on a galactic flight
I wonder at the heavens and the universal might
it scares me a little, I hold threadbear real tightCan you put the moon in my room mum
can you put the moon in my room
It will banish the shadows and give me sight
can you put the moon in my room

Kahleah Celeste means “Clear Bright Heavens”