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