Ceylon Moon

By Aaron Gedaliah

Ceylon Moon is divided into five thematically unified sections -- Moods and Musings, What the Night Brings, With in] Sanity, The Voices, and All That Is Worn and Torn. Childhod is one of the major themes and is introduced in the first section (Moods and Musings) with poems such as I Am Becoming (that describes a brief moment when a toddler's joy erased the poet's bleak mood), and Trois Gymnop dies (based on the first theme of Eric Satie's three-part piano composition). Satie's fragile, gentle theme inspired Gedaliah to study the composer's tragic life. Having lost his mother at age 6, and his grandmother at age 12, Gedaliah creates in words what Satie expressed in melody.

What the Night Brings are a series of poems delving into the nature and vagaries of our dreams. The many unsettled aspects of dreaming is extended into the next section "With Insanity" (or "Within Sanity") explores" the near thin edge" that separates our uncomfortable ideas about what actually constitutes sanity, insanity, and what lies in between.

The Voices are six Rilkean poems in which Gedaliah assumes the personas of non-sentient nature (eg. clouds, mountains, trees, etc.) to explore what it is that resonates within us that draws us to them. The collection closes with All That is Worn and Torn (from the last poem in Rilke's The Sonnets to Orpheus) explores the inevitable decline and closing of our own life and what solace and wisdom we might take away at the end.

The series of poems rises above the fear and despair it describes to reach for a higher position or acceptance, gratitude and love for the journey we've taken. Even for those who believe (like the author himself) that there is nothing more than what we hold no longer. The poetry of Ceylon Moon is consistent with his previous books in that they confront the darkness and chaos but do not wallow in despair, but shines a light upon all that makes life worthwhile that is found in the closing poems Because My Time is Limited and What is Life?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFQPBLZN
• ISBN13: 9798317848217
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Bookbaby
• Length: 84 Pages