Lullaby
Moonbow cradle songs
Sing through sheer corona mists
In grace notes of acapella hues
While golden lunar lentos
Of twilight lunar rainbows,
Crowning Luna’s full face,
Arch with andante’s touch
Like a wrinkle in reality
In haunting flutters on the wind song
Drifting into enchantment and out of time.
A tone poem surrendered in a perfumed arbor
Settles chaos conjured in the cosmos
With gentle rhymes of barcarolles
That rock with moonlight’s tremolo touch
A drowsy art song paints the tuberose perfume
To soothe earth, sky and penitent soul
In beauty revealed by moonlit rhapsody
Where lyrics of sleepy harmonies
Doze to the cadence of blazing stars
Wrapped in astral quilts, nodding in serenity.
3-14-23
Contest: L Poems
Sponsor: Constance La France
A "moonbow" is a lunar rainbow created by water droplets and the light of the moon.
Blazing stars are night blooming flowers.
Categories:
barcarolles, moon, night, sleep,
Form: Free verse
autumn snores
sleepy autumn eyes
daylight slips into midnight ~
vesper barcarolles
autumn softly snores
cornucopia of dreams ~
astral autumn fields
11-13-22
Contest: Bit Size Poem No. 55
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Categories:
barcarolles, autumn, sleep,
Form: Haiku
autumn eventide
drowsy autumn yawns
early darkness stunts her days ~
twilight mellow haze
cool evening dozes
autumn savors frost in dusk ~
scarlet afterglow
fading eventide
croons a sunset lullaby ~
sweet spice of autumn
sleepy autumn eyes
daylight slips into midnight ~
vesper barcarolles
hectic harvest time
abundant crops gathered in ~
amber moon rises
autumn gently snores
cornucopia dreams ~
astral autumn fields
11-11-22
syllables checked with www.howmanysyllables
Categories:
barcarolles, autumn,
Form: Haiku
Autumn Yawns
Autumn yawns – early darkness stunts her days
Eventide wrapped in golden umber tones
Bands of autumn hues swaddle mellow haze
Sunset sundrops sweet serenades intone.
Twilight dozes ‘neath the harvest’s birthstone
Autumn savors new frost in early dusk
Scarlet scents, aphrodisiac cologne,
Festoon icy crystals - autumnal musk.
Vesper rondeaus rustle in dry cornhusks
Scents of spice float in the warm afterglow
Autumn tastes nursery rhymes like sweet rusks
Stars keep watch in astral autumn meadows
She slips into the mellow midnight’s glow
Drowsy barcarolles bid Autumn goodnight
Harvest hectic days through cradle songs slow
Lullabies wait to croon in faded lights
Drowsy barcarolles bid Autumn goodnight
Bands of autumn hues swaddle mellow haze
Lullabies wait to croon in faded lights
Autumn yawns – early darkness stunts her days.
10-219-22
Contest: Autumn Pandoum
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger
Rhymes checked with www.rhymezone
Syllables checked with www.howmany syllables
Categories:
barcarolles, autumn, song,
Form: Pantoum