Love Autumn Poems

Original Haiku by Michael R. Burch

Keywords/Tags: winter, love, dream, kindness, sun, sea, leaf, leaves, autumn, spring, life, poets, words, stars, moon, war

Such a frigid winter...

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tree leaves hued
in virtuoso 
readiness
mouthing shade
the art of kissing limbo
well knowing      they fall
...

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Days too long for the sun to bite still hard,
All trees bring forth leaves that are mostly green,
Different hues are what summer fails to preen,
With...

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in the spring, when petals praise
within the song of grace who’ll amaze
beneath the silence of a gentle bud
there is a power, power in the blood

in...

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Burning like fever in the spring
our love affair was on the wing
then drifted away on the summer wind
now I'm thinking of you
how good it used...

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When leaves drop heavy as unsent
Letters upon the dampened earth,
I taste the copper in cold air—
Your warmth dissolved in autumn's dearth.

October fog wraps ash-grey threads
Around...

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in the air, just after the storm
there is a stillness,
changing the heart, the soul
so wherever light falls
there are shadows of regret
reflected in the music
the rhythm...

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in the autumn morn
a chickadee visiting
~ love upon the wing



AP: Honorable Mention 2025...

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CHINESE 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...

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Leaf 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...

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"Lingering leaves of gold frolic / frolicked in the autumn wind" 
Quote by the sponsor


A crisp chill in the air, not being warmed by the...

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The seamless sky called life shined with cloudless ecstasy,
as in the rhapsody of zephyr rippling with rhythm of love
floated my butterfly mind with the motif...

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dandelion seeds, blowing across the summer’s silence
rising up, a full moon – glowing with its music, its poetry
singing to the stars with their radiance, sparkling,...

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The sea refuses no river,
Even if it could, it never 
Showed resentment
I learned how to hide my feelings,
The emotional game became a contest,
I start with...

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solemn thoughts
meanderings
wandering over the night
stars glistening
on seas of ebony
nocturnal whispers, reflections
in moonlight inklings
stars hesitant
to glow, where the past peels back
layers of discord
naked,
scars boldly weeping
remembering…

darkness is...

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