For Children Autumn Poems

The trees are beginning
to turn inward towards sleep
and are letting go of leaves
dressed in their funereal finery
of yellow, orange and red. 
They fall like severed...

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Children's Poems VI

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Springtime Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

They'll...

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SENSE PLEASURE 

Red honeyed apples
        autumn leaves dewed 
         ...

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Spring Time pretty flowers in my garden will start to grow,
do you see the old huge black crow.
Summer Time with lots of outdoor fun,
watch out...

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We children laugh and yell and jump and scream.
Jumping in maple leaf piles is our autumn dream.
Pulling all these leaves together was total fun too.
We’ll...

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He calls this August
In the morning between trees and metal,
The ground is shaking as he laughs,
He is almost there upon the orange trees over my...

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Cold air of winter.
Trees with no leaves.
The snowflakes softly falling.
Nights by crackling fire.

Time of new birth.
Gentle breeze is blowing.
Sweet smelling flowers blooming.
A sunny Spring day.

Days...

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falling from the tree's autumn leaves paint the ground a colorful quilt.
crunching underfoot the sound of nostalgia memories of fall
red, orange, and gold a firework...

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Spring stirs her dreams,
She lifts her head,
Quietly remembering the sweetness
Gently, spring beseeches –
Slowly, she raises her head.

Summer stirs her spirit,
She dances eagerly,
Hungry for the bird’s...

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As winter fades into spring,
Hearts impressed by the gentle swaying,
Dancing dreams, hasten to explain away,
Gentling shadows of yesterday,
Praying hands, folded and appealing,
To the love of...

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Autumn’s beauty takes place of pride.
So now Summer’s heat steps aside.
Cool crisp air, freshness overall.
More comfortable now its fall.

Green turning golden far and wide.
Autumn’s beauty...

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Colorful leaves covered the hills and plains,
Like stars in scarlet, yellow and orange;
Everywhere are bright trees boasting in chains
Of hues spreading rapidly in wide range.

Everyone...

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excited children
and a mile-high pile of leaves
sounds of autumn bliss



posted on November 24, 2023...

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LATE BLOOMER
sun highlights
the bod of oak bark -
Autumn knight

CLINGERS
won’t let go -
cling to puppy love,
its branches

CLEAVERS
cleaves to old
relationship vow -
storm shakes loose

LANDING
the leaves land
amidst the...

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Leave me colorless
Fill me with an oversized anecdote besmeared on my thoughtlessness
I have no stories for you my second
No war crimes for you my first
No...

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