Autumn Nature Poems

Flattened, wet leaves lay on the ground
From an autumn that feels like a life time ago
So much has changed and sadness my heart has found
Trying...

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Meet me in the Woods 
Under the Open Sky,
The Autumn Roads
of fallen leaves left behind,
At dusk or dawn
when its not too bright,
The drizzle of flowing...

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nature's finest gifts
bursting with sunshine and joy
taste excitation...

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juggling acorns
oak blinks his consternation
autumn wind scare
...

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                  A coloratura rises 
   ...

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In the autumn all trees all trees
Lose their leaves for winter
That leaves the trees bare
Then the first snowflakes come

When the first snowfall begins
The branches are...

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The season’s donned bright colors bold
As autumn winds move leaves to tremble
Most stunning burst in all its shades of splendor
November smiles amid vast treasure to...

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Those seasons,
Have come and gone;
And so have I;
~
Alas, I love you beyond;
Why? because I just do;
Whom, am I to say;
~
Shalt I ever go away;
Physically sure;
But...

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The chartreuse pearls hung on the pregnant vine
as whispered jade of leaves in autumn breeze.
The necklaces of trellis did entwine
like clefs of absinthe notes in...

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Oh, how a fair breeze of Autumn can stir
          My heart with reprieves - the redolent...

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Summer
a sea that is blue
long days
with little to do
not a cloud in the sky
so still and silent
but for the seagulls cry
golden warm sand
run grains through...

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A chilly grey October dawn and 
crying clouds cast their crystals 
upon the soundless soft ground.
I awaken to the velvety lull 
of a purring feline,
lying...

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"Whose woods these are I think I know" - Robert Frost

              ...

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You should have a getaway, my friends all said,
They said I earned it, so why sit home instead?

A real vacation would be the nicest thing...

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As I sit here writing my next prose,
It has begun to snow,
Its beauty over shadows the end result.

I know that come tomorrow I will need
to...

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Four Seasons of Watermill 

Watermill, Watermill, Watermill
At the entrance of Seoul National University
A watermill that goes back to alone

In the spirit of spring earth
Forcefully turn...

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The carcass of beauty spent and done
picked clean by scavengers of time,
whose sated memories of summer
ask for no quarter and offer none.

Winter winds tango with...

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Yamaguchi Seishi haiku modern English translations

Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt.
—Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Ceaseless chaos—
ice floes clash
in the Soya straits.
—Yamaguchi...

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Glazed, basted berries
Cardinal red, burning buds
Doused in morning dew....

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A kite floats
at the same place in the sky
where yesterday it floated ...
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Don’t worry spiders,
I clean house ......

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