WHAT WILL THE MOON LOOK LIKE TONIGHT?

What will the moon look like tonight

As it rises so high above your head?

Will it climb a cloud ladder out of sight

Or move in close to say goodnight

While you lie awake in bed?

What will the moon look like tonight?

Will it shine like a smile floating in the sky?

Will it barely glow, like the little night-light

They leave on in your room when you get a fright,

Will it blink like a winking eye?

When Moon moves between Earth and Sun,

It’s in the phase we call New Moon.

There where the orbit has begun

Moon hides its face in the dark for fun,

A candle snuffed too soon.

Next Moon swells to a Crescent, gleams

Like the magic grin of the Cheshire Cat.

Each night growing, Moon now seems

To be making snacks of floating dreams

And slowly getting fat.

At Quarter Phase, the Moon at night

Curves like the tip of a shiny spoon

Or cat claws, ready to scratch and fight,

The dancing flicker of candlelight,

Or a silver sail at noon.

Moon takes on a funny shape

In the phase called the Gibbous Moon.

It looks a bit like a lopsided grape,

A bulge, a bump hidden under a drape —

A mistake, like snow in June.

In the final phase, when Moon is Full,

It's round and bright as a heavenly eye

And glimmers in the deep, dark pool

Of space like a maharajah’s jewel

Or a captured firefly.

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