Autumn Free Verse Poems

Withering weeping willows
shade wrought-iron gates,
creaking in the midst of a cool mid-autumn gale.

Starless, charcoal skies loom above,
as birdsong of nightingales drifts through the evening.

Coming upon...

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"The darkened sky stole my tears"
Leaving me empty of ebony despair 
Fears fall like amber autumn leaves
Bravery is braided in my somber soul

Whispers of denim...

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The cemetery is not silent.
It hums—soft and steady—
like a lullaby remembered
just before sleep.

This is not a place of endings,
but of quiet continuance.
Here, the earth does...

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In the deep silence of the evening, I remember her needs hidden like a pearl in the shell of time,
the same as yours and mine,...

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The seamless sky called life shined with cloudless ecstasy,
as in the rhapsody of zephyr rippling with rhythm of love
floated my butterfly mind with the motif...

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dandelion seeds, blowing across the summer’s silence
rising up, a full moon – glowing with its music, its poetry
singing to the stars with their radiance, sparkling,...

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As I sat I stared at the teeniest tiniest of hairs which by and by was not so easy for these naked eyes to quantify...

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The old photographs,
edges curled like dried autumn leaves,
offer only glimpses.
A younger laugh, unheard now,
a sun long set on that specific day.

I try to piece it...

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Friends, sometimes you feel like there's no one to talk to,
that there isn't a place where you can shout into the void without being heard,
so...

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As I scream out your name I fall
In darkness I have labored scantly clad in sack cloth and ashes
Wait for me I won't be long
My...

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Sometimes – many times
I’m busier than I would like to be,
I find myself hurrying through the days
as they pass by,
laughing at my scurrying
like a squirrel,...

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All my life i fought for a Dream. 
Dreams, that werent mine
 Dreams, that i never dreamt
Dreams,that never kept me awake
I fought and fought and...

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As the presented light peered to cross the meadows yawn
the timbre of the winds hollowness plied through the forest arches low to high as daring...

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Amber, crimson, golden light,  
A painter's dream, a wondrous sight.  
The autumn wind, a whispered song,  
Where rustling leaves all dance along....

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solemn thoughts
meanderings
wandering over the night
stars glistening
on seas of ebony
nocturnal whispers, reflections
in moonlight inklings
stars hesitant
to glow, where the past peels back
layers of discord
naked,
scars boldly weeping
remembering…

darkness is...

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