Autumn Pastoral Poems

Betwixt
and between-
twilight to night,
dawning,until morning
awakes,
summer
to Autumn,
Winter to spring-
our past joys and future
delights

 | Year Posted 2010...

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Morning mist over Molly`s,
     a late August gold haze.
     Crossing hay fields of Danville,
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A prayer for those
Whose lives are thin
And shelves devoid of
Bread and tin.

A stronger prayer
For those who stand
With more than enough
In every hand.

For in God's Kingdom
Love...

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How is it in this meadow plush with grass
Where sturdy oaks stand holding up the sky
Their shade recedes -long summer days decry
To fade their glinting...

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a sun-kissed morn
after
the haze of dawn,
vapor trails
the afternoon sky
sleeves of cloud
pillow my eye:
long shadows
detail the dusk
evening so suddenly
becomes night...

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Hear the weather
upon the roof,
Winter is a'coming:
As landscapes 
drowse
Autumn arrives
on the wind:
Wardrobes are
ransacked,
thermostats
turn red-
so earlier to bed...

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In the Autumnal sunlight -
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A November wind has roared for days.
Dead garden stalks lay bent and frayed.
The proud maple now stands undressed
In drifts of yellow against the fence.

Broken remnants...

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Fall’s Beauty


Shuffling through the leaves and grass
Looking back on Autumn’s past
Gazing at the dreary sky
Watching nature take a sigh

As we wait for winter’s blast
And the...

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Summer nears its end
   racing
   through the weeks now passed
with little left to do
  the garden 
  winding down...

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While gathering wood one autumn day
To make a stack beside the stove,
I spied a nest along the way
Of back and forth and to and fro.

November’s...

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After the lilacs have gone by,
before golden flowers bloom
we will walk through meadows
soft and blue 
and feast on bread with honey 
stolen from autumn bees...

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09-25-2015

Summered Autumn Winter Bite                     ...

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My cabin is pretty in the early morning
When the dew lights up on the grass and leaves
And when the sun shines high in the great...

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O Jerusalem! O Jerusalem! How I love to visit your city! Beautiful are your gates. Elegant are your people. Tell me, O Jerusalem, how can...

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