Best Foliage Poems
as swans slide across lakes - sunset rays sway to autumnal reveries
ambling across swirling helix - of deadened cinnamon foliage
mocking greenery framing skeletal bones - of lifeless roots crackling
the warmth of your deep saffron gold aura - harvests the depth of our love
eclipsing rippling mistrals - simmering amidst auburn horizons
Categories:
foliage, autumn, feelings, journey, life,
Form:
Monoku
The very first week of every October
Bright yellow, orange, amber, purple and red
Splash artistry on New Hampshire’s White Mountains
As the tourism season comes to a head
North Conway’s old railroad station is abuzz
Men in traditional conductor attire
Escort sightseers to seats with pane-free windows
To peer out at landscapes in colors of fire
The spectrum on dappled mountains evokes awe
Caught by camera lenses as cool winds blow
Offering a chilly reminder to all
That these peaks will soon be blanketed by snow
Clickety-clack, the train hugs its aged track
Freeze-frame photograph images will remain
Recalling the splendor of fall’s peak foliage
Until spring breathes life to the mountains again
Categories:
foliage, autumn, nature, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
woodland reflections
painted with autumn’s palette ~
kaleidoscope views
Categories:
foliage, autumn, color, mountains, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Wafting in the breeze,
Wilted dreams...to be a bird:
Leaf aspirations.
Categories:
foliage, nature
Form:
Haiku
Deep in Nature's woods
Battle scars of weathered life
Silently descend
Categories:
foliage, life, nature
Form:
Haiku
Fringed by colored trees,
The passage up the mountain;
Calico Autumn.
Categories:
foliage, nature, seasons
Form:
Haiku
with dusk approaching
the radiance of the day
melts in the rain
streetlights smear
the autumn colours
across the footpaths
doubling the display
of chromatic foliage
autumn gloats
AP: Honorable Mention 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
Categories:
foliage, autumn, beautiful, color, light,
Form:
Free verse
Fall foliage—
the colors are great
for economic growth
Categories:
foliage, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
The dense foliage,
Palms and Ferns and Shrubs. Oh my!
Oh how dense it is.
Categories:
foliage, america, earth day, environment,
Form:
Haiku
Silhouette of trees dressed in chiffon prints
Oaks, pines, maples flushing their hair
I trail along their rumba curve
Way down to where young bushes nestle
Above gentle sail of Charles River
crossing a moat...slowly, foliage begins to drop
thin leaves in nearness of autumn’s embrace,
As more shredded timber follow in graceful float
Where mauve petals kiss the air.
The bronzing of glens and wheezing of mist
Reach a final close of summer fire,
Cluster of moments drape veined trunks
With sniffs of earthy scent, reminding me
How lush the branches swell against heat
Of August ‘s coals when two pairs of arms
Coated the moon with paint of reveries,
Fresh the meeting of palms fondling the barks
In a fleeting sketch of romance, and then,
Like a drift of frail boughs in milder rumba dips,
Trees hold sepia charades, until....
Categories:
foliage, memory, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Gold is covering emerald leaves,
I can see cloudy heaven is numb,
Asters, dahlias blooms among grieves
like a garland they cannot succumb.
Little rain is annoying sometimes,
It is hanging like muddy cobweb,
The wind plays with the foliage that lies,
It will fly away newly, don't grab.
And sometimes daring ray of sunshine
will burn lightly with its rare kiss,
Clouds run fast spinning over skyline -
Clouds of numerous gold-plated leaves.
November, 1915
P.S. This is my translation of poem by Vladimir Nabokov.
Categories:
foliage, autumn, emotions, feelings, kiss,
Form:
Lyric
F ire on horizon this time of year,
A utumn ushers in winter’s sear.
L ight slowly fades a bit each day,
L ess time now for outdoor play.
F loods of colour on the trees,
O ccur before the big freeze.
L eaves scatter as rain falls,
I t’s our warning - winter calls.
A maple leaf gives the best show,
G olds, reds, orange all aglow.
E njoyed by all - a Thanksgiving.
Written August 27, 2012
For Francine Robert’s contest
“Autumn Acrostic”
Categories:
foliage, nature, seasons, time,
Form:
Acrostic
Leaves swayed above the ground--
The elder branches
Released pure foliage
The wind whistled and crowned
The young, dainty leaves
With a sweet, mellow scent
Leaves land on the damp floors--
The elder branches
Released such squalid grief
Categories:
foliage, hope, inspirational, nature, sad,
Form:
Haiku
sea holly
growing in a garden
pollinators
Categories:
foliage, flower, nature, poems, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
An empty studio:
the man of the passionate handwriting
belts his dog
come my glory, my plebeian bride
hamster bagels
glitter indeed:
meticulously chosen bbq charcoals
as whimsical jewellery
“I’m so on fire and hear the wind”
Your grabbers, call them back
let me su.su
“No, don’t touch me now,
let me talk”
Categories:
foliage, lifeme, me,
Form:
Free verse