A Seasonal AffairA frigid spell of arctic air
adorns the tranquil western scene;
a stunning glimpse of fall’s affair
with spring’s vivacious flower queen.
When autumn’s cooling wind combines
with April's warming playful breeze,
a whirling tempest paints designs
on grounds of winter’s icy freeze.
On sculptured hills of milky snows
October's tepid finger strolls,
and May's...
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Categories:
autumn, beauty, change, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Issa Translations IIThese are English translations of Issa haiku about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Autumn wind ...
She always wanted to pluck
the reddest roses
?Kobayashi Issa translation by Michael R. Burch
Issa wrote the haiku above after the death of his daughter Sato with the note: “Sato, girl, 35th day, at the grave.”
In this world where I was born
every...
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Categories:
autumn, rose, spring, stars,
Form: Haiku
Like an Autumn LeafUnleashed by a breeze in autumn, I could f l o a t.
What was magical then
has become a melancholy note.
I drift through mist; Farewell to...
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Categories:
autumn,
Form: Rhyme
in the autumn morn
in the autumn morn
a chickadee visiting
~ love upon the wing
AP: Honorable Mention 2025...
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Categories:
autumn, bird, love,
Form: Haiku
a fall hikuinhaling brightness
while tasting sunset’s breeze . . .
caressed by fall’s bliss...
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Categories:
autumn,
Form: Haiku
Echoes of AutumnFading gentle touch,
Echoes drift like autumn leaves—
Sweetness slips away.
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Author’s Note:
Like autumn leaves quietly drifting away, this haiku speaks to the fading of a gentle touch. It captures that bittersweet moment when something tender slips through our hands, yet leaves behind a soft echo in the heart—a quiet trace of what once was, still lingering in...
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Categories:
autumn, nostalgia,
Form: Haiku
Persusasive Waterspersuasive “ “ “ “ “ “ “ waters in gravitational pull
plummeting “ “ “ “ ...
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Categories:
art, autumn, beauty, water,
Form: Ekphrasis
Chinese Translations IVCHINESE TRANSLATIONS IV
These are English translations of Chinese poems about nature, the seasons, autumn, winter, spring, night, time, tears, flowers and love.
Seeking a Mooring
by Wang Wei
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
A leaf drifts through infinite space,
a cold wind rends distant clouds.
The river flows seaward,
the tide repulses.
Beyond the moonlit reeds,
in unseen villages, I hear
fullers’ mallets
pounding...
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Categories:
autumn, love, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
shadows of light
Categories:
autumn, appreciation, light, morning, poetry,
Form: Haiku
The Last AutumnLeaf got cried,
On moving apart.
The pain wandered
Inside a Lil heart.
The living trend,
Lasting for long
Blowed the wind
Asking the will along!
To separate heartily
Relations on a bid!
Aparting soul merrily!
Getting a silent rid!
The determine lasts
One the only will,
Before moments pass,
Earlier to be shrinked!
Asking for a heart
Emotions let filled!
One with fond arts
Living love still!...
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Categories:
autumn, 1st grade, allusion, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Gold turned GreyAutumn gold turned grey,
We all do, including you,
Soul lights fade away.......
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Categories:
age, autumn, destiny, humanity,
Form: Haiku
Natures Pride - Choose a Line 3"Lingering leaves of gold frolic / frolicked in the autumn wind"
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A crisp chill in the air, not being warmed by the sun.
I hear rustling, a sure sign that autumn has begun.
"Lingering leaves of gold frolic / frolicked in the autumn wind"
My love of Autumn and its gold leaves will never...
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Categories:
autumn, wind,
Form: Rhyme
a fall hiku
Categories:
autumn,
Form: Haiku
smell of joy"There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
which through the summer is not heard or seen,
as if it could not be, as if it had not been!"
- Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelly
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"Lingering leaves of gold frolic
frolicked in the autumn wind"
humid air-dampened shy trees
start to shed slowly all
inhibited emerald green
Friendly few...
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Categories:
autumn,
Form: Free verse
Summer smashes SpringSummer smashes into Spring with violent heat that leaves the air in a hazy daze. All of the tender, green rain-draped brilliance of young foliage giving way to the drab, sunbaked drowsy green that swelters and gasps for rain all through Earth's yearly simmering. Boiling and drying in invisible and malicious rays, all green tends to...
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Categories:
america, april, autumn, life,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Autumn Poems
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