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Unread 09-26-2016, 12:59 PM
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Final Plea

The trees are gold,
the birds have left,
the air grows cold
and I bereft.

The night consumes
the shrinking day.
Darkness looms.
Please, summer, stay!
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Tree at My Window

(after Frost, of course)

Tree at my window, window tree,
you always share your leaves with me.
I watch your leaves bud every spring,
limbs of leaves soon burgeoning.

And when the school bells ring and call,
I know your frosted leaves will fall,
your year in time with outer weather
attuned to my fall inner weather.
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We'll Be Running

My calendar says it is autumn.
But the trees aren't turning,
The leaves aren't falling,
It's too damn hot to go hunting.

Like my lazy dog I'm dreaming;
Those red and yellow hills,
And twilight whippoorwills;
A harvest moon reborn,
My hunter's haunting horn.

She whimpers in her sleep,
I smile and scratch her ears;
Don't fret old girl, it won't be long,
Raccoons will raid the Indian corn;
Autumn will come, and we'll be running.


Along the Osage, I'm hoping.
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Seasonally

Fall’s denuded
Winter’s shrouded

Spring’s reseeded
Summer’s repleted
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Unread 10-03-2016, 02:35 AM
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It’s the season of tricks and of treats,
And in Autumn, my poet’s heart beats
With desire to write
A great ode … but, oh shite!
It’s already been done by old Keats.

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When there’s colds to be caught, I have caught ’em,
And the flu has me feeling post-mortem.
Freezing rain, wind and fog
Make me sick as a dog …
That’s just Summer; it’s worse in the Autumn.
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Everyone has turned their clocks back,
but I can't seem to fathom this watch.
So here I am stuck in Summer
with timekeeping a bit of a botch.
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Fall Light

With every shortened day
the lovely leaves take flight
but bare trees increase light
that plays as branches sway.
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Migration


The Valley gets a little rain,
to wet the palm trees and the taquerias.
The winter flocks are here again,
the Winter Texans. They are glad to see us.

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Unread 10-15-2017, 05:37 AM
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Fruition. I eschew the race
to beat the creatures who would steal
the makings of an easy meal.
Instead I give them living-space
and hope thereby to gain in grace.
For I have fruit and they have not
so I will share my garden plot
with all small things that come to glean
the secret spaces in between
the softness and the whiff of rot.
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I enjoy whatever you post, Ann, be it in poetry or prose. This one too.
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