Full Moon Almanac
Wolf Moon
lights snow-blue fields
embossed with paw print trails
to where January ghosts howl
Ice Moon
Snow Moon
February’s
bluster winds heap white dunes
We’ve stocked the cupboard full against
Storm Moon
Worm Moon
March’s wiggly
trails of melt, then Crust Moon
Spring so white and pure we call her
Chaste Moon
Pink Moon
wild flowers bloom
as April birds return
to build twig nest, lay a sky blue
Egg Moon
Flower
Moon of May
Bunnies hop in Hare Moon
Farmers dream Planting Corn Moon and
Milk Moon
Rose Moon
Strawberry Moon
of June when hard green fruits
soften, blush under sun’s rays, night’s
Hot Moon
Buck Moon
July’s the time
to hunt, replenish stores
then sleep secure through Thunder Moon
Hay Moon
Red Moon
August’s smoky
skies color Sturgeon Moon
while green Corn Moon sprouts, promises
Grain Moon
Harvest
Moon, September
lights nights of bringing in
oats and wheat under Barley Moon
Corn Moon
Hunter’s
Moon, roam under
October’s Travelers
Moon, stalk prey in frosty Dying
Grass Moon
Beaver
Moon, the busy
rodents mend their dams in
icy blue November’s grip of
Frost Moon
Cold Moon
lights Christmas paths
December’s carollers
so bright you could forget it’s Long
Night Moon
Blue Moon
rare-month moon
when full moons multiply
their charm, mystery, magnetism
My Moon
– Violet Nesdoly
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The November 2nd Poem-A-Day prompt was to write a full moon poem. I know there’s a lot of interesting lore about moons—full moons in particular. So I went hunting for some before I wrote my poem. My favorite find was a wonderful National Geographic article called “Full Moon: What’s in a Name?” It listed names the full moon has been called in lore and history through the months of the year, and gave the genesis of many of these names.
I wrote the poem in cinquain form (a 2-4-6-8-2 syllable cinquain) to keep myself reined in and the poem compact—seeing as how it would go on for 13 stanzas in any case.
This poem is submitted to Poetry Friday, hosted today by kidlit maven Anastasia Suen at Book Talking.
Violet Nesdoly / poems 