Moon Pebble and Tipper Tapper

Moon Pebble met rain for the first time,
because it rarely rains on the moon.
Moon Pebble did not know the name of rain,
so she named them after the sound they make
and called them Tipper Tapper.

Moon Pebble was excited about Tipper Tapper,
because they brought company to her to play with
when they were excited,
and sometimes even caried Moon Pebble along rivuleting journeys.
Moon Pebble loved how shiny she looked everytime
Tipper Tapper came to pay her a visit.

One day Lyle the Lylon came across Moon Pebble
—Lyle was not very good at pronouncing things, including his own name—
and offered Noon Pepple a shelter from the rain, so she can remain dry,
but ‘No’ said Moon Pebble, for she has come to love the rain
and did not want to be away from them,
when they came to greet her.

‘Oh’, said Lyle, ‘then I shall wait with you to meet Tipple Tapple’
and spread himself over the large poulder Signus.
Igneous greeted the absentminded Lyle as if for the first time again
and introduced herself to Moon Pebble:
‘We are sky sisters’, she said to Moon Pebble,
‘Once we orbited the Sky Fire together’.
Igneous remembered everything.

Moon Pebble felt new and old at the same time
and asked Igneous
if she knew of Tipper Tapper and when they would come back.
‘Soon’, said, Igneous, and bouldered a bit with fond reflection:
‘When I first met them I was fire myself,
but they thought me the calm of waiting,
rolled friends over my jags and cracks,
and with each passing friend I became smoother and shinier
thanks to Tipper Tapper.’

Then it began to tip and tap, and rumble and fshhh and shwrl,
and Moon Pebble found herself rolled on next to Igneous and Lyle,
and they all listened to the song of Tipper Tapper together.

Melih Sener