Evening: Margined with Stars
Evening’s velvet hem borders a fading horizon,
gently creates
a boundaryless world of nighttime
margined with stars.
The autumn moon ascends.
No passport, no visa needed.
--Patricia Williams
Owls in the Corn
Fall's moon alchemy -
ring-around-the bonfire rose,
taste of Winter's kiss.
--Kevin Maus
Once in a Blue Moon
My husband, cocoon of night,
blue moon on a grey day. His
scent is cinnamon baking. We
met like a tsunami, turning my
hammered heart into a skyscraper.
--Linda McCauley Freeman
harvest moon —
the glow in your cheeks
speaks of love
the glow in your cheeks
speaks of love
--Bonnie Scherer
october moon rising
richly gilded, warm nights still sing
bats drink from hidden springs
dipping on the wing
we walk hand in hand draped in gold
--Ginny Short
You, Still
Fields of barren trees, tranquil under autumn moon,
a rabbit frozen in blue,
the first frost moon painted the world in hues
and you, asleep, my youthful love,
still.
--Patricia Furstenberg
Forgetting
I wake on the shore of fever, without memory
we read Tagore, I sit by the door waiting for you
later; running fingers on your lips curved in a smile, beneath the frost moon
I forget you beloved Debabrata.
--Smitha Sehgal
autumn moon
his wife's silent treatment
crickets crickets
--Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo
dark autumn moonrise,
one sleepy eyelid opens,
the other winks shut
--Sandy Hiortdahl
autumn rain
reheating
luke-warm love
--Vandana Parashar
autumn moon
shadows walk
with street walkers
--petro c.k.
The Moon and the Light of the Sun
We wish to remake a time not lost,
Amid the obvious love kissing, start
Dressing and breakfast, being without body,
in the overnight creation of a world.
Descending from blue sky in lunar white
and autumn gold, white as milk
in a day moon nearing, bright as the sun
the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun.
-- AE Reiff
