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

October

 

Autumn poem

Black walnut trees

Stained by October moon

Shed their yellowed garb

Will face what comes

With strength and grace

As deep inside they crochet

Next year’s lace

                            --Elizabeth Hykes

cold tea surrenders,

invites the October moon

to slip into the cup

                              --Jeff Burt

October moon

like the eye of a deer

caught between baying dogs

at dusk

                            --Patricia Furstenberg

orange moon

monarchs come to rest

on the old pine

                            --Randy Brooks

chipmunks

the barn owl blackens

the Autumn Moon

                            --Joshua St. Claire

autumn moon gazing

through storm-tattered alder leaf;

shadowed lace and light

                            --Kersten Christianson

October moonrise

the sky’s abiding ceiling

glows with fire

                            --Katherine Simmons

a star wanes and fades

as the autumn moon rises

a new light by which to steer the ship

                             --Ceri Marriott

sunbeams glance first frost 

moon — dance waterfalls — tree, ferns

infinite fractals

                            --Gerard Sarnat

leaves rustle and fall

a distant symphony soothes

cool air rings with bird calls

                            --Christi Kochifos Caceres

Moon of falling leaves

                                      Greets guests honorably 
 
Night unashamed

                              Lightly impresses 
 
Rhythmic crickets filigree

                                            Stars gossamer wickets

 
Trance

             Of receptive opposites
 
Darkness 
               conjures light
 
Trance

             Of receptive opposites 
 
The Great Horned Owl

                                       “WHOooOOOooo be you”
 
Dew soaked grass 

                              Precious eloquence

                                            --Stephen Rozwenc   

cicadas buzz like chainsaws under

a luminous harvest moon

sound gently weaves the silk nights

i imagine that you also

hear the singing of this moon

                            --Ginny Short