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Best Autumnal Poems

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Premium Member Autumnal
I remember clinging on to the naked branch,
which had been my home since the season of birth.
In my days of botanical glory,
flourishing and nourishing in...

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Categories: autumnal, analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Autumnal Flame
Vistas of autumnal flame set the fiery meadows afire
Where song of the winds wheezes in auburn breeze
And gold, red, brown whispers kindle tunes of a...

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Categories: autumnal, autumn,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Autumnal
In depth of woods how autumn dazzles, swirling beauty of ornate décor,
Waltzing with ochre hickory, birch; whirling flaxen moods of sycamore,
Gracing my view upon blazing...

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Categories: autumnal, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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Categories: autumnal, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Waterfall of Shadows
I watch
as sun slides down in the sky.
The shadows increase in length,
a dark waterfall descending 
upon the sandy beach.
Slowly I inhale and exhale,
savoring the fresh...

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Categories: autumnal, eve,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Periwinkle Promises
Close your eyes
inhale roses-
love-glazed steam 
of insatiable thirst;
place your thoughts 
upon my heart,
feel my 
voice s w i r l i n g
in sync with...

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Categories: autumnal, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Acorn
Stay - One more golden morning –
Linger - One more silver night –
Abide tiny child born of my desire
To encourage a new life;
Watch with me...

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Categories: autumnal, autumn, blessing, change, goodbye,
Form: Personification
Premium Member October Sun
Ascending above sanctum of horizon, a dawn inflames the effulgent rays,
Enlightening daybreak as embers of light set the scarlet morning ablaze
Projecting golden beams on hushed...

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Categories: autumnal, autumn, imagery, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Motifs of Autumn
Twilight crimson in motifs gold
Paints eve’s horizon ruby bold
Where autumnal dreams unfold

As saffron vistas waltz to please
Amethyst winds quiver in breeze
Falling leaves of gamboge trees

Stars...

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Categories: autumnal, autumn, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Endearing
Love is an impulse fueled by the heart,
A stimulating prompt eliciting response
Invoking affinity from halo of its soul~
Sense it, feel it, touching depth of core;
Harmonious,...

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Categories: autumnal, love,
Form: Verse
Fragile Is Life
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love....

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Categories: autumnal, death, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Life Is a Poem
life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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Categories: autumnal, assonance, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forlorn Hope
Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple...

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Categories: autumnal, lost love, moving on,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Laments of My Heart
I hear the voices you once bequeathed to me
Enchanting concert music in symphony of love
But I left the theater before the show was over
Walking all...

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Categories: autumnal, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imagination
A muddy toad 'ribbits,'  
before leaping away -
to which I ponder,
if fairy tales were true,
who's 'Prince Charming.' would you be?

I smile,
in the quiet pond's reflection.
I can see...

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Categories: autumnal, imagination,
Form: Imagism

Book: Shattered Sighs