Autumn Free Verse Poems

We harvest all we can
to last us through winter
Glance at the majestic moon
and make a wish with her

Magical things happen
as her rays beam down
a soft...

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FRAGILE VESSEL
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Poem written for and submitted to “Broken But Bold Enough to Bounce Back” Poetry Contest, Anoucheka Gangabissoon, sponsor, August 11, 2025.

They gathered like shadows,
the...

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Autumn

….. is mortally wounded!
It stumbles, tumbles 
across the silken, rouged sky
quivering over rusted hedges
shivering through shouldered trees,
splattering, smattering 
everything in blood-red.

On it goes, on it...

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The bicycled leaves
pedal across the lawn
chain-linking me
to a past 
fallen autumn.
When we
Could no longer be false,
exposing our true feelings.
We withered
from the cold.
Trying to rake in
"Why's"
but...

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E-gads! I wanted to enter
this contest...now, not an adjective left -- 
Any attempt to describe would be theft! 

Nothing related to do, but visit my...

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Quote:  
“Nature's first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf's a flower; 
But only so an hour. 
Then leaf subsides...

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In the deep night, I swallowed myself,
A shard of glass sharp in the throat of silence,
Shards carving the outline of a lost being,
There was a...

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STAGE BENEATH HER FEET* 
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before the lights ignite,
     she stands, a silhouette of dreams,
       ...

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Life Without You

Life without you 
in cold desert sand,
I walk without shadow,
the sun too tired to care.

Alone in the place I used to know,
walls whisper...

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In the hour when senile summer breathes her last,
The vim of her ego births a somnolent child.
Rising forth from the yawning pit of newness,
Dyed with...

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A leonine sun of August's stately presence,
see the maple and oak leaves,
no longer a fresh green of youth.
Children will put their beach pails away,
when September's...

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We cannot blame nature for melancholy of the autumn
Leaves falling down the ground 
Decay to enrich the soil for feeds and the fertility of the...

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They fall from grace to grass,
aged, scorched and dehydrated,
fluttering away further
the vanity of previous
greenness and elevated times,
reminding us of the fragility
of life,
the futility of striving...

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The mist is lifting, soon the world
will reveal itself to be just shorelines
between one dream and another.

I need to be away.
my last Autumn will be...

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Half Past Summer, Two Months To Fall

The sultry legs of summer dance under sunny skies
Each day, the steps are heated and embraced
She lies in summer's...

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