Best Harvest Moon Poems

The harvest moon appears behind the hill
In purest enchantment like so foretold,
As her radiant tassels glimmer still
Like embroidered  lace of russet and gold.

From whispering of the ambient breeze,
A nightscape etches autumn’s moss and fir
Through lucent bowers of glorious trees;
Where dragonflies and owls reel on,...

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When harvest moon alights,
to sail like gauzy lace
on through a cloud’s embrace...
I watch her mystic rites,
as beaming, she excites
my lithesome hours of grace.

How glorious the view
atop a mountain crowned…
with lilies all around
that settle on her queue,
beguiling eve, anew
when sparklers reach the ground.

Till weaves of dawn...

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Comes silently
on sorrel moccasins

roosted on tortoiseshell
of root cellar

singing, stumbling
in numb imaginings

lit with half-light
vegetables
squeezed in jars
of russet and avocado

above
a cornice of sky
split with laughter
searching
for broken arrowheads
gold and silver among leaves

air billowed white
from lips
soft frail bones
of snowflakes
magically appear
scattering in breath
taken away
into apple night...

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A brilliant harvest moon hangs beneath the ebon Colorado sky.
Scudding clouds dare not darken its lustrous glow - tho' they often try!
Silhouetted against the moon are geese winging to warmer destinations,
Mysteriously guided by That Master Compass in perfect V formations!

The moon spreads a coat of...

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The harvest moon rises so bright
Through the deep darkness it does shine
Like an orange ball in the night
Evolving with wishes of mine

Through the deep darkness it does shine
Chasing away any worry
Evolving with wishes of mine
With fall dreams before snow flurry

Chasing away any worry
The golden globe...

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harvest moon
                  
                 flourescent light to pluck corn
    ...

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And the harvest moon smiles


The ground beneath my feet
solid as is stone of millennium’s might and fear
Flat on a surface of cultured desires,
formidable, paved in promises kept and windswept actions

This night, chocolate skies of peering pleading eyes,
locks smooth, dark, shining beneath silent stars
glowing down upon...

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...the village shivers   a hive of restless souls
skin pricklin' with anticipation
as costumed runners fixin' to gather — hearts a-thrummin'
                like trapped hummin' birds

the gun cracks — a thunderbolt
...

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The skies are blessed
with a spectacular magical
Harvest Moon as it sits low
on the horizon 
It's bright ambient orange 
glow at its zenith shining 
bigger and brighter
Chords of moonlight shimmer 
as it stretches out to caress the 
waters surface
Years ago its brilliant illumination 
 would announce...

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Tonight it’s forecast to be a Harvest Moon
so we stroll hand in hand on the shore.
The sea’s so tranquil, so unlike yesterday
when waves crashed and tempest raged.

Clouds drift on by, casting a misty shadow
‘pon ripples on the glistening calm sea.
A rich crimson glow radiates in...

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S erenade under harvest moon;
E mbrace the melody of its tune.
P ulsing rich blue veins to excite,
T ransmitting profuse love tonight.  
E mbers burn scarlet from its glow, 
M easureless kindness starts to flow.  
B efore the moment fails to grow;  
E...

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summer stars  a f a r       *    *
                           ...

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A harvest moon high
above makes people wonder
why is it so big...

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Harvest Moon

Gather in the field, collect up the harvest, 
stay together and be aware. 
Do not stare into the night, too long…
Get up with the dawn, work early.
Work all day and know that all is well. 
Do not fear what you can not see. 
That...

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Austere and cold, the harvest moon
adrift through raven skies, alone.
Do you divine some ancient rune,
or are you but a mute, gray stone?

The timeless void that you traverse
holds earth and stars eternal course.
Will you convey a prophet's curse,
or lead all men unto their source?

Your haunting, amber...

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