Sport Autumn Poems

“Satisfied and alone … Serene and reflective”


I, satisfied and alone, proceed
to walk this trail- as I do each new Fall;
not sought by many, but for...

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I like when the days become short,
And football becomes the main sport.
It's time to pick apples for that delicious pie,
And the scent of pumpkin fills...

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Fall is just unwrapping,
    With all its colors to descend.
While sport is in full bloom,
    From beginning to end.

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Crinkling hands, outstretching for last comfort
Rusty speckles, sentience all soaked up
Trunk limbs sapped veins on close up
Scented leaves bow before court
Autumn curtain falls, a seasonal...

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The leaves are slowly changing
To their russets, reds and golds
As the temps start dropping lower
So that autumn thus unfolds.

The porches decked with pumpkins 
Or with...

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Once again, it’s that time of the year,
A time to reflect and a time to cheer.
Fellowship with the people here,
Embrace the moment near and dear.

The...

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It is a small investment; this property out in the scrub.
A building that is shabby in it’s ‘hey day’ was a pub.
Blackberries scramble over it,...

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Indian Summer

The skies are turning washed-out winter blue;
The wind blows hints of frosty future chill;
Leaves now swirl, or sport a varied hue,
And scents of fall...

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“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which...

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SMITTEN OLD MAN

High school year book, 47
I’m not a gad looking guy –
Short hair, sport coat, tie

This remembered as I gaze across the room
She’s sitting...

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on tree limbs jutting out over rivers
sleepy gators bask, absorbing summer’s heat
in fall, the sluggish reptiles do the same
temperatures exceed 100 in the Sunshine State
till...

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its the kick off
some watch in the loft
its the thing
that sport lover bring
every year  dress like bear
see the new names
it this big game
the
SUPER BOWL...

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Although it’s almost autumn
And the stands are stacked with mums,
It somehow feels like we’ve been stuck
With summer’s unswept crumbs.

For temps are in the 70’s,
So folks...

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There's a chill in the mornin' air as autumn in Vermont unfolds.
Splendor is revealed as trees assume their cloaks of reds and golds!
Fodder shocks gleam...

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I am finding that as I become creakier and so much older,
That I tend to keep peering back over my shoulder,
At the feckless and carefree...

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