Autumn Verse Poems

Lovely enchantress of cyberspace

Betwixt and between us
lies an immense untraversable realm
of never knowable forbidding possibilities
quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic...,
where tantalizing, scandalizing, and revolting, 
nevertheless promising fantasies...

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Cloaked in misty judgments, we have dressed ourselves,
Finding in condemnation a kind of sacred and dignified sport.
An inert paradigm, where blame is like a talisman
That...

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Line of Inquiry
“I wasn’t sure what it was he said but it meant a lot to me.”

When there was still daylight lingering,
And the wind was...

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If tears don't run salty into the bowl of lentils of life, you don't know the seasoning of pain,
It's just a breeze, a transient wind...

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In the days that gradually thin, sprinkled with the last strands of sand,
Evening descends upon my old and warm soul,
Bony and stiff fingers, yearning for...

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They say a lifetime is a year
But I've lived through may seasons
Winters so harsh and lonely
That I can not breath.
Pursued by shards of ice at...

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 Your heart remains in the same place where its memories belong to.-
quote by author


Small, close and warm neighborhood. Only a few children inventing toys...

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Now all our crops are in and larders full,  
so we’re ready for wicked winter’s worst
when we face those freezing Arctic attacks.
We have in...

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I will not leave untaught,
With what color freedom shines.
Not a stranger on this Earth,
But a citizen of the whole planet.
And as truths unfold,
What you feel...

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I smile at myself
for being so sentimental,
but how lonely it looks -
the last leaf 
on the cherry tree.

Its countless companions
who shared and hung together 
through...

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What is the taste of happiness, ask the trees rooted in tale,
And the wind brings on southern wings answers hidden in crests.
Is it sweet, like...

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Beneath the starry vault of memory, your voice lays down
Like a blanket of marble weathered by long-forgotten deities.
I've allowed my hopes to be gently polished
By...

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A springtime showers upon us like a quilt of stars,
The empty house warms in its vacant heart:
Through it pours the summer a river of melted...

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In the cool of an autumn morning
my father and his friend, 
Jimmy Kerin, would go
mushroom picking in paddocks 
way out past the last suburban fence.
I...

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I knew well
The spring is impermanent
So too, are winter, summer 
Monsoon, and autumn 
Flowers fade and leaves fall
Fruits that are ripe decay too
Yet…
Does the sap...

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