Autumn Ekphrasis Poems

Calm, cool mornings
Blessed with sunlight’s whisper,
Birds crooning softly in the distance,
Breathless dewdrops sliding hastily over
A petal, treasuring the promise of rain,
Hesitating then pouring down from...

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I hear her 
When, in stillness – peace,
She surrounds me with her promises,
Light, mist on the morning, hope
Lifting away all the doubt, the darkness
With a...

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Owed to a Grecian Formula,
Though secretive and unbetrayed,
Scarce noticed, by gradations wane:
Auld sylvan strands, fine argent grey.

Rich chestnut hues, slow, unannounced,
Emerge discreet midst ashen roots,
As...

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Except for the snow, it’s a monochromatic scene
The pond is frozen to a reflecting mirror finish,
In the fields there is not a speck of green...

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stupendous silhouette of castle 
piercing through hazy fog
reminds me of your shadow
as you come to meet me at twilight

mixed hues of spectral sky 
reflected in...

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old tracks
 to
      the water edge
  a
    thatched cottage
a river a harbour a boat

with
  ...

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The sparks fall like stars from a grey slate board sky
As ashes like teardrops drift into my hair.
I cover my eyes from the crackling glare
While...

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a poem
        of memory
        meditations
      ...

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Those leaves, like fire before our eyes,
fell down as flames from autumn skies,
then twirled like feathers to the ground
to weave a blanket wrapped around.

Like a...

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sounds
 of pity 
    surface
as
moods ripple
&epitaphs
      happen upon
      the legacies
of life..
..
questions flee
in...

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The morning's first cup is sweetest, rich and hot, 
as I look through my kitchen window at the hickory.

The low branches will come off first.

Once...

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In the firmament of trees
October's eye
looks down in cruel azure
on summer's absinthe leaves,
flocking like survivors
to a mortal haven.
Autumn's blood magma
creeps through leaves
bequeathing fire 
and brittle...

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Iridescent ivory beams
stream 
through trunks
lining the lane
as through stained glass.
Rubies and honey glow
in the leafy tempera
of a sistine oak canopy.
In the sable silence
of autumn's crisp...

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In autumn's brisk crimson
she weeps for summer.
September courts her
with scarlet and fire,
but xanthic plains
and sun's saffron blush
on cobalt lakes
stain her cheeks.
She'll sleep
in winter's bereft cloister,
the...

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re-post inspired by Janis contest

From
Summer
to Autumn-
mood indigo
blue
a Crown Prince
of colours-
in avant-garde
hue

Tribute to Julius Exter
http://www.herren-chiemsee.de/englisch/o_palace/exter.htm...

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