Autumn Anxiety Poems

Lovely enchantress of cyberspace

Betwixt and between us
lies an immense untraversable realm
of never knowable forbidding possibilities
quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic...,
where tantalizing, scandalizing, and revolting, 
nevertheless promising fantasies...

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One, two, three, 
Then a change of scene. 

Falls were always so calm, 
The winters comfortable. 
Summers were warm,
But the spring was always a little...

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should I fear my autumn
when Juniper wilts with me
and the sagging stars above
edge closer to the sea

should I fear my autumn
with winter still to show
my...

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The time is now for solving problems we have let accrue,
The time is now for something old but new,
The time is now for an end...

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At Peace

A dark cloud of cancer looms on the horizon.
Will it simply pass or rest above me, and shower demise?
Or will the clouds break with...

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Time may change me
But I can't trace time
-David Bowie

piercing morning winds threaten
to strip the trees of their
orange, golden and crimson gowns;
the resilient foliage
gripping tightly to...

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Cherry blossoms, with a mundane grace,
Drift    d  o    w      n
Like hollow trees, in...

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dawn lays its head sleeping as  moonlight prevails over copper glory

autumn arrives - sapphire clouds eyes mist as water puddles flood their feet

storms shrills...

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Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten...

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Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liberty...

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“To live in hearts 
we leave behind 
is not to die.” 
Thomas Campbell 

If I could colour grey clouds of grief
I wrap them in sky's...

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My heart ached dull and wallowing
Like an itch that won’t go away
I feel  hollow and carved out
Like a piece of me is missing

My spindly...

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It's just October, but, oh no!

They cannot just let Autumn glow!

Entered some stores, just yesterday-

saw Christmas trees on full display-

doomed Halloween, Thanksgiving's show!
...

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The Autumn crocuses sway
amongst the shadows of the pine trees
The air is resonant with smoke
As the buddleia dies down

August as thick as musk
Blackbird came a...

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Ebony portals form in the shadows,
and demons emerge from the depths of Hell.
Exactly why this occurs, no one knows,
but their presence is marked by a...

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