Moon Poem Archives - Every Day Poems

Khor Virap by Alex Vartan Gubbins

Alex Vartan Gubbins was born in Chicago. He has a BA in African Languages and Literature from UW Wisconsin and an MFA from Northern Michigan University. He was the recipient of the 2014 Witter Bynner Translation Grant and a finalist in the North American Review's 2015 James

The Moon by Natalie Crick

Natalie Crick, from Newcastle in the UK, has found delight in writing all of her life and first began writing when she was a very young girl. She graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in English Literature

The Path in Autumn by Tom Sexton

Tom Sexton is a former Alaska Poet Laureate. His latest collection is A Ladder of Cranes, University of Alaska press, 2015.

I’m Living in Oaxaca by Ken Massicotte

by Ken Massicotte Hay que soñar para vivir One must dream in order to live. 1. I’m living in Oaxaca but I’m harbouring a canoe. I keep it high in…

ARTIFACTS OF WOMANHOOD by Lana Bella

A Pushcart nominee, Lana has a diverse work of poetry and fiction published and forthcoming with over 140 journals, including a chapbook with Crisis Chronicles

2:37 a.m. by Laura Grace Weldon

Laura Grace Weldon is an editor, writer, and aspiring hermit. She lives on a small farm notable only for its lovestruck goose. She's the author of a poetry collection

3:01am by Carl Scharwath

Carl Scharwath's work has appeared internationally with over fifty published poems and seven short stories. He won the National Poetry Contest award on behalf

wrath of the mermaid by linda m. crate

Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. She currently resides in Meadville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews

Uncle Eddy Dead Beneath the Flowers by Alejandro Escudé

Alejandro Escudé is the winner of the 2013 Sacramento Poetry Center Award. His first collection, "My Earthbound Eye,"

COLD NIGHT, WARM HAMBURGERS by Cheryl Buchanan

Cheryl Buchanan is a former attorney from Los Angeles and current MFA candidate and Writing Instructor at Emerson College.

Devoted by Janice Canerdy

Each day from dawn till late at night, she only wished to do his will.

Concrete Ground by Anne H. Bakke

by Anne H. Bakke It's that bitter taste again it comes and goes like the seasons; the sun and the moon; the rain and the sky; the wind and the…

Chiseled Shadows by Mary Rogers-Grantham

Mary Rogers-Grantham is the author of three poetry collections: It’s Okay: Poetic Memoirs, Clear Velvet, and Under a Daylight Moon. Her poems have appeared in literary journals

At Midnight by Emily Strauss

Emily Strauss has an M.A. in English, but is self-taught in poetry. Over 160 of her poems appear in dozens of online venues and in anthologies. The natural world is generally her framework;

Last Game by David Allen Sullivan

David Allen Sullivan’s first book, Strong-Armed Angels, was published by Hummingbird Press, and three of its poems were read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac.

unspun moon by Linda M. Crate

Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh, but she was raised in the rural town of Conneautville. She attended and graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Lady of the Evening by Jack Peachum

by Jack Peachum She’s in her beauty tonight– and how lovely– luminous, riding high, dressed in her best yellow gown, playing the part of doting girlfriend– peeking down shyly from…

Jazz Water by John Guchemand

Breaking forth, breakneck pace Triangle tongue flag unfurls, reaches out humming hands,

Makers of the Moon by Rick Wilcok

From what I could gather, the sunset had disappeared No golden slivers shaking across the depths

Nocturne by Sheila Luna

Sheila Luna studied poetry and nonfiction writing at Arizona State University. Her work has appeared in Sotto Voce Magazine and she is currently writing a memoir

Rocket by Pamela Riley

Pam Riley is a native New Yorker, who still misses the Big Apple. She likes to spend her free time going to the theatre, museums and traveling. She has been writing for years MORE...

At The Party by Darrell Lindsey

tequila worm faces dabble in Dali. I depart for deeper woods,

You Noticed by Ivan Jenson

Sometimes I just disappear into the patterns

Hallowe’en by Joel Benton (1896)

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite All are on their rounds to-night, In the wan moon's silver ray

soar by Camille Thigpen

by Camille Thigpen and this is for ultramarine ink splatters on my wrist and jawbone; this is for clavicles sharpened by crescent-moon blades , float, ether-lithe (hollow bones and swollen…

Under a Daylight Moon by Mary Rogers-Grantham

by Mary Rogers-Grantham At noon, a woman plants lilies. She hums, as if expecting someone to join her. The moon is pale, the sunlight pristine, an earthworm pushes through a…

The Bedroom by Doug Draime

by Doug Draime There is no point of reflection here. It wavers at the angle the bed used to be. Where it was once was, at that angle, I watched…

It’s her fault by John Steffen

by John Steffen Because of the moon Wife and I got in a fight when I dragged her outside to see the light tonight Because of the moon The light…

The Blues by Amit Parmessur

by Amit Parmessur Around blue, white oceans, in a blue and black house dwells a black speck. So black, so blue black alive, emotionally blue. Sometimes like a fresh…

She by Camryn Barganier

Ice cream is for grown ups And love is for lesbians. She was ice cream Warmed by the forgotten time of deep kisses The flavor of the week

Things we know by Dave Margoshes

Everybody knows the man in the moon is blue cheese, that dogs keep the sun at bay in winter, that fireflies are the souls of the dearly departed, flickering through

Child Among Metal Sculptures by DWE Scott

by DWE Scott Roll the metal sculptures out; Shake out their gnarled limbs; Loosen their terrible torsos; Let the air be filled with horrible clankings; Let it grow rank with…

Poem Found in a Wood by Ian Dudley

by Ian Dudley the low sun turns puddles into sheets of sky indigo where the moon gathers its white and the custard and blood leaves of a cherry tree dying…

The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson

The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson A poet was born in a modern time, 'Neath Saturn and his Rings, He was a child of the world's…

The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Edna St. Vincent Millay Love, if I weep it will not matter, And if you laugh I shall not care; Foolish am I to think about it, But it…

Old Tunes by Sara Teasdale

Old Tunes by Sara Teasdale As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;…

The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And softly…

The Letter by Amy Lowell

by Amy Lowell Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper Like draggled fly's legs, What can you tell of the flaring moon Through the oak leaves? Or of my…

Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot

Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John’s balloon Or an old battered lantern hung…

Drinking Alone in the Moonlight by Li Po

by Li Po (or Li Bai) Under the flowering trees, with a bottle of wine, I drink alone, for no friend is near. Raising my cup I call the bright…

THE MOON by William H. Davies

According to his own biography, William H. Davies was born in a public-house called Church House at Newport, in the County of Monmouthshire, April 20, 1870, of Welsh parents. He was, until Bernard Shaw "discovered" him, a cattleman, a berry-picker, a panhandler?in short, a vagabond. In a preface to Davies' second book, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1906)

THE MOON by Sappho

Sappho (~630-570 BC)