A short piano piece evoking the solitude of drifting on a moonlit lake. (Scroll down for video.)

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drifting on a moonlit lake—
    my destination
      circumscribed
    by shadowed shores

seeing hazy shadows float
    in gentle rhythm—
      glist’ning light
    on ripples roll

hearing frogs and crickets sing
    a serenade to
      fireflies
    who flit and flare

watching geese across the moon—
    their plaintive calls—on
      silver wings
    that beat and bear

musing as i drift along
    i think to rise—and
      join them and
    in freedom fly

but here i stop—
    and remain—
        still—
            drifting on a moonlit lake

drifting on a moonlit lake © 2021 by Gary R. Smoke.

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“Drifting on a Moonlit Lake” Prelude No. 2 from Seven Preludes for Piano by Peg Thompson.

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The score for Seven Preludes for Piano is available at Sheet Music Plus.