Tanka
Last night, the full moon
hung like a papery lamp
over my quiet road.
I savoured the chilly sky –
the moon tagging my shadow.
Katherine Gallagher
First published in The Unidentified Flying Omelette, ed. Andrew Fusek Peters, Hodder & Stoughton
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Moon by Kate O’Neil
Leave a commentMoon
Moon, I know
you’re rather fickle –
not long ago
you were thin as a sickle
but look at you now –
It’s night’s high noon
and you’re fat and full
as a blown balloon.
Moon, your face
is made of light
and you hang like hope
against the night,
waxing, waning,
sometimes gone,
always changing,
moving on.
© Kate O’Neil
Moonlight by Jeanie Axton
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The light of the moon
On a clear clear night
Brings out the Fish
But not to bite
Leaping out of the water
Higher each time
Teasing the fishermen
Is not a fish crime?
Meeting in the river
Holding fish school
Teaching the young ones
How not to be fooled
Big ones and small ones
Middle-sized fish
None of these beauties
Will end up on a dish
By the light of the moon
On a bright clear night
Not one fish caught
Not one little bite
Jeanie Axton
Moonlight Surprise by Karen Hendriks
Leave a commentMoonlight Surprise
The moonlight shines brightly
casting dancing shadows afar.
A tiger prowls past
Creeping into the night.
Just behind a tree
a crouching black mystery
seems to be stalking
me in the deep,
dark, black night shadows.
But as I draw
closer and closer surprise!
For the black mystery
Isn’t a scary thing.
As the dancing moonlight
shines ever so brightly.
Then I see revealed
our dog Elmo hiding
behind a dark tree.
Elmo crouches and waits
to doggy surprise me
in the night so
that I’m never alone.
Australian Children’s Poetry 