Autumn Blank Verse Poems

Buffalo woman knew the value of life
She understood the beauty of the mountains
Anticipated the ebbing of the night skies
She appreciated the sprinkling sound of autumn...

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Do you remember all those years ago,
That magical evening when first we met?
September always brings it back to me.
We were meant for each other, you...

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Autumn faerie touched her wand to a yellow mum.
The mum’s colors turned crispy and an October brown.
Whether she retains her yellow next year is up...

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autumn sparkles with shiny colors
her leaves twinkling and winking in the breeze
the forest is full of golds and reds today
walnuts are piling under my tall...

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Wonderful autumn colours
Enhance the branches,
Shrubs and bushes,
Hedges, trees.

The leaves have done
Their summer work
Of cleansing air
And feeding vegetation.

As daylight shortens
Leaves downwards sail
Recycling 
Into needy soil.

A glorious...

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   It's the end of a perfect fall day,
   the sun is going slowly down
   and the evening light...

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Would we could turn back the hours;
transport rearward that small hand,
take back a few we wasted,
perhaps youthfully misused.

Yet, if it was made be so,
of which...

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She never said she loved me.

My mother shone when she spoke of my brother
he was the firstborn when the world was magical
she loved him and...

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On meeting ruminants 

My mother had tuberculosis, and my sister and older brother
sent to a children's home, where the idea was strictness
My brother didn't come he...

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The next president of the USA

Here we are on another Sunday; we have survived
the debacle, two old men arguing, none of them
wore reading glasses
Two things...

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the long sleep


We got up late that morning
bills all bills paid
it was autumn,  a morning and cold
righteous and smug under the duvet
I have 500...

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My way (edited)
the three famous tenors sang, MY-Way
the fat one died, and the two others 
hates each other
never appear in public together
One looks like an...

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Butterina is not the faerie you see every day on Manhattan streets
you would not be spotting her sharing a Celtic Irish dance either
No matter how...

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The contents long consumed, discarded; 
the packet stirred in the gentle breeze
before rising, dancing, escaping;
an ersatz yellow-red autumn leaf;
wind chaser that will live forever....

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