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This Week's Poetry Wheel Challenge

September 07 - September 13, 2026

Theme: Memory
Emotion: Hope
Color: Gold
Season: Late Summer
Form: Free Verse
Object: Lantern
Verb: Remember

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“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall”

Quote by _ Oscar Wilde

Memory

 

It is 'late summer' and autumn is very close ~
maple trees are watching their leaves flutter 
away . . .  in a great wave of 'gold'.
Flowers fading ~ 
bees and wasps swarm dizzy,
the wind whispers soft beauty to my soul
and the sun still shines bright above.

I watch neighborhood children jumping in the leaves,
and the squirrels gather them to line nests
and cardinals look for berries.
'Memory' drifts,
'remember' . . .  is a thing I do often,
of the park where I played as a child.

Leaves danced with me swirling and whirling,
Chinese 'lanterns' ~
turned bright orange in hedges
I 'hope' my years left in life~ brings me such memories.

autumnmemoryfree verse

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