Midnight Garden

reprint from March 23, 2007



The full moon shines
with all its might,
drenching my garden
with mystic light...............

L. 11 years old

Flowers such as "Queen of the Night" bloom only in hours of darkness and belong to my sister's midnight garden. They open pale eyes under the light of the moon, when the rest of the world is sleeping. Their perfume is more intoxicating than ordinary flowers for they belong to dream and mystery. One of the night flowers; Cereus greggi blooms only for one midsummer's night each year. The flower exudes its exquisite perfume as night falls, then closes forever with the first touch of dawn. There are people who are like that too; special people who in a unique moment touch us with ephemeral beauty.

Princess Haiku's ghostly interview with Loreena McKennitt

There is an extraordinary, large full moon in the sky tonight for it is at its Perigee. A perfect opportunity for moon viewing and listening to Loreena McKennitt sing, "The Mummers' Dance." It is nearly midnight and I am searching for the Mistress of Secrets. Does she lie in view of the Moon or within? Only the scorching notes of the red-haired avator can say.



"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." - Thomas Carlyle