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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

Pillow Talk

 

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

                            --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