Autumn Longing Poems

On summer nights
Nostalgia's muse revives
Scent of jasmine
Fig tree fragrance fuses
Memories meander 
Minty ice cream flavours 
Add sweetness to hungry kisses

Star gazing to cricket symphony
Roof top...

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Autumn gone, now winter frost,
Reflections return, times long lost.
Words, pictures plucked from air, 
Those I know are always there.

Sixty years ago and more,
When life and...

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Spice
by Lanier Thomas


A smell of rich spice—
Long walks in the Autumn woods
Memories long past
...

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The clouds hide the sun 
I wad glad to see you having fun 
Under the tree with falling leaves 
But i woder how it feels...

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Brown as a withered leaf
Crimson neckband with flashing wings of
winter taupe - bright green underneath.
Perched each day in the window’s bay
ever out of reach.

 If...

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Snowflake… 
Deep winter 
Ex………...hale
Into thick night sleep
While autumn, intoxicate,
Dreams drunk
Dizzily bubbles with old fruit, long ferment
Veiled under frosty top, 
Poppity pop pop!

…Huzza! 

Faintly, two flakes,...

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Our home was lit with autumn's spicy scent.
Now spent are the forms that had something to hold:
votive molds, photo frames, vases.... forsaken.

The form within my...

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Our breath is paled by the October moon—
I'm miming prints with her glance on glass;
But by window magic, don't we all swoon
To this season's world...

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The morning takes the slumber from my eyes,
As I look out toward the east to see the sunrise.
Memories takes me back to another time,
An autumn...

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"longing for autumn"

cool air now breathes
nestled within shades
beauty surrounds

longing for autumn
she arrives in vintage flair
whispering its me

stunning skies of blue
she moves with a scented breeze
giving...

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We sat on the porch of your best friends apartment
Celebrating time with cigarettes and conversation
You sat on my lap; a siege concealed in a kiss
My...

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"Dead leaves lay still until the wind takes them
         here and there:  even the last flower...

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O wake my friend! Ope thou thy eyes
The lamps and stars and wind heave sighs
The leaves of trees all faint all fail
With autumn gale they...

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O candles lit my temples all
My gloomy gloomy darkish ways
In beechen green I can not see
The starry blooms, The heaven's fays

O Thou votary of the...

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“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar.” Owens, Delia. Where the Crawdads Sing,...

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