Well, the October moon sonnets — both full and new — are written. I just haven’t had a chance to type them up yet. On the other hand, the page in my notebook where I wrote them looked so nice, I figured you all would like to see it. Here they are, and if you go to my Flickr.com account site, you’ll be able to view them at a larger size, and even read them.
If someone typed them up, I’d also be quite grateful.
Wow….
Thank you, thank you, thank you…
Most appreciated. You’re great.
Sonnet for the October Full Moon
Hail, lady Moon, as a chill sharpens breeze
And leaf-fall hastens from chestnut and elm
Gull and crow alone still remain at ease
Both wren and mosquito have fled this realm
Retreating south, or into patient egg
Aster forgets her age-old covenant,
Spreads one last violet bloom ere frozen fog
Wraps her in shackles hard as adamant
A victim of winter’s murderous kiss
Yet hillsides barter emeralds for rubies
And trade their celadon for topaz bliss
Rockstar goose leads V of honking groupies
Water snake spends final day under sun
Engorged with last meal his venom had won.
28 October 2007
Pomfret, CT 06258
Sonnet for the October Full Moon
Hail, lady Moon, as a chill sharpens breeze
And leaf-fall hastens from chestnut and elm
Gull and crow alone still remain at ease
Both wren and mosquito have fled this realm
Retreating south, or into patient egg
Aster forgets her age-old covenant,
Spreads one last violet bloom ere frozen fog
Wraps her in shackles hard as adamant
A victim of winter’s murderous kiss
Yet hillsides barter emeralds for rubies
And trade their celadon for topaz bliss
Rockstar goose leads V of honking groupies
Water snake spends final day under sun
Engorged with last meal his venom had won.
28 October 2007
Pomfret, CT 06258
Sonnet for the October New Moon
Hail, bright crescent, as crickets slowly sigh
As yellow crowds out green from twig and leaf
Yellow jacket’s bite, as painful as brief,
Stings cadence to geese’s honking good-bye
Who flee on swift wings from islands turned dry
Peninsulas, where fox and raccoon-thief
Bring eider and mallard to sudden grief.
Flickers of black sparrows spatter the sky.
Deer linger and graze at the forest verge;
Turkeys gobble in marsh as dusk deepens;
Carmined cloud reflects crimsoned ridge of trees
Oak galls may become next year’s hornet scourge.
First walnuts thud down, then green skin blackens;
Even squirrel feels the twilight’s dis-ease.
16 October 2007
Pomfret, CT
Sonnet for the October New Moon
Hail, bright crescent, as crickets slowly sigh
As yellow crowds out green from twig and leaf
Yellow jacket’s bite, as painful as brief,
Stings cadence to geese’s honking good-bye
Who flee on swift wings from islands turned dry
Peninsulas, where fox and raccoon-thief
Bring eider and mallard to sudden grief.
Flickers of black sparrows spatter the sky.
Deer linger and graze at the forest verge;
Turkeys gobble in marsh as dusk deepens;
Carmined cloud reflects crimsoned ridge of trees
Oak galls may become next year’s hornet scourge.
First walnuts thud down, then green skin blackens;
Even squirrel feels the twilight’s dis-ease.
16 October 2007
Pomfret, CT
Wow….
Thank you, thank you, thank you…
Most appreciated. You’re great.