Autumn Innocence Poems

A leaf will tremble
As the traveler moves on
Do you see me here, falling?

My love, forever
I will dare to reach for you
And hold you close to...

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“A Reckoning of Illumination”

Autumn winds fall delicately upon my weary soul 

Light from a heavenly place surrounds my interpretation of the scripture 

Elemental hues of...

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Earth.

When winter tires of being cold
Of icy fingers and chattering teeth
And spring can no longer sprout,
Green shoots and buds of promise
Summer will intervene with balmy-
Days,...

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I remember clinging on to the naked branch,
which had been my home since the season of birth.
In my days of botanical glory,
flourishing and nourishing in...

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Fall 
Whether 
broken— there
our veins are joint;
by leaves that saturate the ground with new

beauty that I walk through cracking myself
on gems, but soft—
Whether the
weather
breaks....

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children chalk sidewalk bricks
in fresh colors of bravado, pinks, blues, reds
rhythmic brushing
mystic threads merging, 
handled meticulously
 
child pedigree to erase the bland
on splashed bricks, laced...

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Are you the butterfly
while in my dreams
I flit after Soshi?
—Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

It's not at all anxious to bloom,
the plum tree at...

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Gingerbread red
Poem started may 24, 2022

Blood marks the spot
Just follow the red dot 
Let’s play a game
I don’t think it has a name 

X marks...

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In Autumn Fair 
The Old Oak stands strong in  dappled  shade, 
with sunlit greens and browns upon the  misted fields, 
who yield...

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Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment
Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.


Tis here that I met you on a pleasing summer morn
Where blossoms of the cherry,...

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Amber moon over endless seas
warm breezes caressing
Green sweet grass nodding into the brisk air
gulls nest, fires dot the beach
figures rushing hand in hand
Along the reach

the...

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October Autumn breeze morning risen 
sunlight tickles the leaves of the trees 
in the lake fountain Glory river waters

Running fluent quickly as I tease my...

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Flying through the breeze, her soul searches for the edge..she is going to fall with the falling earth..

She gazes at the leaves..they are falling too..as...

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Children run to piles of raked leaves
           a gift of lightness
    ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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