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Harvest Door

Harvest Door

Indian summer sighs a shy farewell
Days pit-a-pat
To a door
Closing 
Shut
~
Fall
Knocking
Quietly
In harvest moons
While frost blows air kisses through the keyhole.

9-8-20
Picture #1
Double Tetractys Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper

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Jeanne Mcgee Date: 9/18/2020 9:34:00 AM Wonderfully penned Sam. Congrats on your win with this great image. a fav! Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 9/21/2020 10:52:00 AM This was a fun theme to explore! Thank you for your congratulations and your gracious compliments. So honored by your fav. Take good care my friend!

Linda Alice Fowler Date: 9/18/2020 6:28:00 AM Enjoyable read depicting the change of seasons. Congratulations Sam! Linda Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 9/21/2020 10:48:00 AM Thank you Linda! So happy you enjoyed it! The seasons change slow - one day it is summer and we turn around to find the trees bare! Have been enjoying your writes!

Carol Mitra Date: 9/17/2020 10:03:00 PM This is a wonderful take Sam....Congrats on your win....Take care. Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 9/21/2020 10:46:00 AM So glad you enjoyed it. I wasn't sure where to take it. Thank you for your visit and gracious message. All the best! I have been enjoying your poems.

John Watt Date: 9/17/2020 8:27:00 PM Nice use of the door/keyhole metaphor to paint a picture of the passage between summer and autumn, my friend. Hearty congrats for your first place finish! Elbow bumps! Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 9/21/2020 10:45:00 AM Hi John! Thank you! The door image just seemed to welcome the idea of time passing. I loved your poem on this image - especially the handle as a person. Elbow bumps and fist pumps...some blessings too!

Eve Roper Date: 9/17/2020 6:46:00 PM Lovely write, Sam, I love the way you painted a beautiful picture of the seasons moving forward .. Congrats on your wonderful win :) <3 Hugs Eve.. Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 9/17/2020 8:47:00 PM Thank you Eve for your congratulaions and your placement! I am very appreciative. I've never written in this form and had such fun creating this write and using the changing of the seasonal gurad as a theme. Blessings!

Andrea Dietrich Date: 9/10/2020 4:10:00 PM this was such a cool idea. I love the idea of the "door" and how you set this all up! Login to Reply

Janice Canerdy Date: 9/9/2020 5:52:00 AM Sam, this is so beautiful--creative approach to the topic! Janice Login to Reply Sam Kauffman Date: 9/9/2020 5:38:00 PM Thank you so much Janice. I am so appreciative of your lovely message. The door just seemed to lend itself to the passing of summer and approach of autumn! Here's to fall!

Darlene De Beaulieu Date: 9/8/2020 3:27:00 PM Hello Sam Kauffman, first we have the cooler weather for a short time. Then we get our Indian Summer. Then Fall . Enjoy your evening my friend. Login to Reply Darlene De Beaulieu Date: 9/10/2020 12:20:00 PM Hello Sam how i wish that the wild fires would burn itself out. I hope the fires will be put out very soon. Are ther water planes putting out the fires? I hope a solutions will come about to solve the fires problems. I hope you are safe. God Bless. Sam Kauffman Date: 9/9/2020 5:36:00 PM Now we have smoke from three wildfires - north, sougt and in the middle! Our skies are amber and it has looked like dusk all day! Thank you for your visit! All the best my friend!