The Moonstone or Diana's Tears

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 dVerse: Compounding the Stem

So for today’s prompt we are turning our attention to compound words and... a prompt... that is the Compound Word Verse...  a poetry from invented by Margaret R. Smith.
15 lines
5 stanzas
3 lines per stanza
rhyme scheme a,a,b
meter 8/8/3
last line of each stanza includes a compound word using the same stem
the poem’s title includes the stem word


appearing in the east tonight

reflecting through the trees its light

the moonrise


luminous in the flower bed

towering over roses red

moonflowers


in my hand held up to her beam

I sense a calmness, as a dream

my moonstone


the glow and play of light within

remind me of the light akin

to moonglow


later on, through curtains of lace

celestial light that shines from space

a moonbeam


©2026 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  


In Roman Mythology moonstones were believed to be the tears of the goddess Diana, who was the personification of the moon.  Diana would shed luminous drops of moonlight as she watched over the world at night.  My moonstone egg is a poor example of the gemstone. 

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