Wednesday, 11 February 2026

Four Poems by Lorraine Caputo

 






THIS RAIN MOON

 

Soon the moon will be full again, that

Snow Moon as northerners call it,

large & white, beaming behind

the clouds of our rainy

season, perhaps to

once more rain all

the silent

& dark

night 


 

MEDITATING ‘NEATH THE

ECLIPSING FLOWER MOON

 

In the full moon’s

light, I meditate

 

opening a door

to another realm

 

where my mind will

wander to insights

 

I will not remember

 

~

 

& with a start

I awaken to

 

the Flower Moon

eclipsing, turning

 

to russet rose

red, zinnia-orange

 

~      ~

 

I try to focus

my camera’s eye

 

on its visage …

 

~      ~      ~

 

Only to be

beckoned to the door

 

I left ajar

to enter once more

 

to that other realm

 

~      ~      ~      ~

 

& all night ‘neath

that eclipsing moon’s

 

presence I wander

 

~      ~      ~      ~      ~

 

Only not to

remember nary

 

a thought when

I awaken to

 

a pouring pre-

dawn rain … & that door

 

a-slamming shut … 


 

SEARCHING FOR THE LIGHT

 

Thunder Moon hidden behind clouds

thick & scuttling, wavering shrouds

 

Will they ravel this night,

shedding light below, upon crowds

 

of no-one, world’s silence aloud,

searching for the lune’s light 


 

AUTUMN NIGHTS

 

Waning Harvest Moon rising

in this velvet night,

disappearing … reborning …

splendid Hunter’s Moon 

 






Lorraine Caputo - Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including Orinoco Plains (dancing girl press, 2025) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. She is a Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada honoree (2011) and multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. 

 

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Four Poems by Lorraine Caputo

  THIS RAIN MOON   Soon the moon will be full again, that Snow Moon as northerners call it, large & white, beaming behind the ...