The Autumn Moon

first frost moon

between border fence posts

those young faces

                            --Chen-ou Liu 

car over thirty

and I am older

first frost moons

                            --Jerome Berglund

What is 1,000

miles?  Sleepless night, autumn moon-

spill from cobalt sky 

                            --Kersten Christianson

rainy clouds hide

autumn moon from

snoring fox

                           --Molly Zeigenbein

autumn moon

but harvest time

comes early now

                          --Ceri Marriott

swallows spill into night

between wingbeats—

flickering first frost moon

                            --Karen Zhao

looking up i see

autumn moon in the day sky...

a cooper's hawk calls

                            --Pat Geyer

palm leaves

over cold autumn moon-

like a teacher’s mark

                           --Patricia Furstenberg

autumn moon

in a puddle -

a street rat pauses

                            --Ravi Kiran

autumn moon -

a flock of geese rises

from the lake

                          --Juliet Wilson

         

autumn moon

fireflies gather

on the screen door     

                         --Katherine E. Winnick

autumn moon

at the bottom of the well

making a wish

                        --Agnieszka Filipek

autumn moon-

through bamboo forest

a distant flute song...

resembling

what I heard

in my last life

                       --Ram Chandran

The Old Scarecrow

 

To Breathe

O silver platter moon,

do you see the blue clouds?

They enter my lungs and force the air out;

the bottled oxygen doesn't help

O eye witness, what else is there to say?

                             --Sulakshana Guha

don't tell the scarecrow

someone is stealing the beans

                             --Yayū

receding patter
of trembling raindrops
cancer whispers spread
                             --Douglas J. Lanzo

hospice-

how many autumn moon

still I have

                            --Ram Chandran

gathering storm

the air in the waiting room

heavy with silence

                            --Chen-ou Liu

harvest moon
stuffing a body 
with plastic bags
                            --Mariel Herbert

moldy oranges

scattered on the ground

the smell of rot

                            --Eavonka Ettinger

sickling moon

hollowed out in daily scoops

now the lightness of being

                            --Dr. Vaishnavi Pusapati 

the constancy 

of weeping wisteria 

- blue moon 

                           --Katherine E. Winnick

sentient death poem 

writing itself 

cranberry moon

                             --Jerome Berglund

 

autumn moon

nothing but the sound of leaves

falling

                            --Mark Scott

with no moon

i tell the fallen moon

of autumn tears

                            --James Young

virtual funeral

the autumn moon

watching through my window

                            --Adele Evershed

in silent midnight

our old scarecrow topples over

weird hollow echo

                            --Boncho

Lines

October moon, one owl,

one moth, one lonely cricket,

my bed empty too

                             --Jeff Burt

rice dumplings 

and pampas grass decorations

moon viewing

                            --Christina Chen

fall-

every leaf

waits for its wind

                            --Ram Chandran

autumn moon -

a black cat crosses

my path

                            --Juliet Wilson

red hues 

of autumn—

booster shot

                            --petro c.k.

October moon

an echo of laughter

through the empty hallway

                            --James Babbs

October morn
farmstead scarecrow gets
a new hat
                            --Roberta Beach Jacobson

first frost moon lost rain

of an autumn equinox 

beech mast never came 

                            --Jenn Martin

last night’s fullest moon

still sings, bell-clear, this morning

—Autumn’s  aria—

                            --Ron. Lavalette

autumn moon

the fraying seams

on her jacket

                            --Kimberly Kuchar

autumn rain              

parasols bloom

on the sidestreet 

just add water

— instant flowers

                            --Christina Chin & Linda Ludwig

A Touch of Autumn

White-wings

 

For months the White winged Doves

have gathered in the yard

with morning appetites, afternoon

thirst and a blue ring

around their orange eyes through which

the summer threads its

infinite soul. There is war

east of hope in the world

                                        and rain

wandering lost in the sky. There are

sales at the local stores

and red green red lights

flashing at intersections

between good luck and bad. There’s

a hawk who wakes up early

and patrols the urban streets. There’s

a cloudbank building

                                 with a heavy heart

and doves present

then gone. Away they go

to drought’s end,

drinking moonlight on the wing.

                            --David Chorlton

A Touch of Autumn

She whistles through a blade of grass,

      sharp and serrated,

and does not shudder

      when it cuts her lip:

blood and breath to call him, to bind them.  

The wind bends tree boughs low

      like lovers dancing,

as he wraps ethereal arms around her,

      red lips marking him

and the leaves flush and curl, before falling.

                            --Shelly Jones

distant sirens...
in moonlight the barbed wire 

dripping blood

                            --Chen-ou Liu

power cuts—

the first frost moon

out stays its welcome

                                --Adele Evershed

a sickle harvest moon,

two dead bleached cottonwoods

tuning forks of the poors’ harvest

                           --Jeff Burt

recoil 

the Hunter’s Moon

still in the buck’s eye

                            --Joshua St. Clair

eerie autumn moon

even my wooden owl sleeps

with one eye open

                            --Dana Clark