Autumn Strength Poems

Finally my blood began to coagulate,
surrendering to wounds from constant battles.
I was fading in shades of an Autumn leaf,
crumbling to seasonal trials,
yet, searching for a...

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The rays falling on me,It is confusing; for some people, it is burning.For some, it highlights my flaws.But the perception is that, for me, the...

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  An Autumn wind blew an acorn
   from the paws of a squirrel
  right into the pond 
   without...

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Written: September 13, 2023
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Through cloudless weeps, my pen glides.
Trace severe, dense whispers of afire minds.
Under the brisk beams of the Autumn sun.
Anguish is my tapestry,...

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Up the wooden hill
where the fir tree spills
rustic autumn and soil,
cries of "The pale one".
All in arms,
pitchforks at the ready.
"Burn the witch! Be gone!"

An equivocal...

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Inspired by Sandra Oh's character, Cristina Yang, from Grey's Anatomy. She says to Ellen Pompeo's character, Meredith Grey:

"You are a gifted surgeon with an extraordinary...

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embers light the way
through the ash, enduring the 
cold, awaiting death...

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white winter coat

first of frosty ground
sneaks in quietly with fear
does it's sagging bit

first snow gently falls
warning of  growing power
to bury what's green

snow in strength...

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Poem: Fall
Fall, you made me strong.
Made me realize, I was wrong.
Wrong were my ways, I went astray.
Went astray for fleeting pleasure,
Forgetting, my task is a...

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Rampant reckless retrospect rushes 
The present blurs in blues 
The mistakes of the past make me miserable and low
And so, I give up and the...

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Summer cries, autumn whispers,
I bloomed, like spring roses, despite my winters.
One by one, my petals fell,
Enchanted by an eerie spell,
Blown away by violent wind and...

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What do people see,
When looking at a maple tree?
Could be soft green leaves in June;
Maybe it’s shade on a July afternoon.
Perchance a golden kitchen table;
Or...

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A lonely yellow butterfly flits along a crisp fall breeze as other life forms seek out a warm refuge from the approaching night's freeze. Rigor...

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Let's learn from nature to hope.
Every dark night is followed by the bright daylight.
Every autumn has to be followed by a spring and every cold...

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Unspoiled autumn age
Anon ridge my god picks way
Strong buck bears his burdens high

I soul-less, hunt sight 
Forest warmth and bounty hoard
Resting only in god’s ruins

4/10/20
Inertia
Edward...

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