Full Moon of a Tropical Summer Night



The soft honey glow emanated
Around a brilliant mottled sphere
Framed by a delicate archipelago of clouds
Fading into the charcoal gray evening sky
And sandbar ripples clouds
From a tropical ocean at low tide.

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I wrote this poem seeking to paint with words a picture of a beautiful night sky that I saw.

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Written on 2010

Submitted by cfox57 on October 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDCE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 209
Words 35
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

Charles H Fox III

I grew up interested in the arts, literature, music, poetry and in spiritual knowledge and philosophy. more…

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