From William Shakespeare to Rita Dove, autumn has animated famous thinkers and writers over the generations. This fall poetry contains a lot of imagery.
"Poem" by Paul Carroll has an infectious joy—read it, and you may also feel comfort in the stars, sky, and leaves around you: "There is only wonder." Rita Dove captures the season's melancholy with lines like these: We sit down / in the smell of the past / and rise in a light / that is already leaving. "First Fall," written from the perspective of a parent taking her infant for a walk, has one of our favorite poem endings: "I’m desperate for you to love the world because I brought you here. "The world begins at a kitchen table," Joy Harjo's poem begins.
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Sing to me, Autumn, with the rustle of your leaves.
We may earn commission from the links on this page. Thank you so much for sharing this lovely rendition of the Quatrain form ... my favorite for composing...Golden, crisp leaves falling softly from almost bare trees,Letting go of painful things is probably one of the most difficult choices to make.
In autumn, we watch the past leave us, leaf by leaf.
This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Every season has its special beauty and autumn is no exception. e.e. Watching the trees turn from a uniform green to all varieties of gold, yellow and red is a spectacular experience.
But once you realize what your aspirations, visions, and ideals in life are- that these have become somehow...I also love nature and especially Fall.
Breathe on me your spicy scents that flow within your breeze. "How silently they tumble down / And come to rest upon the ground / To lay a carpet, rich and rare / Beneath the trees without a care," Brady writes at the start of the poem, about nature's decorations.The speaker of this humorous poem imagines himself as a—wait for it—
The narrator of this poem finds that her life blossoms in fall, thanks to a relationship.
How can it be that all this beauty is sign of death and decay? As Robert Frost wrote in one of his most famous poems, "Nothing gold can stay." As Robert Frost wrote in one of his most famous poems, "Nothing gold can stay." "September Tomatoes" by Karina Borowicz With all this beauty there is a certain sadness in knowing that the changing colors foreshadow the arrival of a long cold winter.Sing to me, Autumn, with the rustle of your leaves.
Shakespeare compares fall to the aging process, and reflects upon growing old.
The copyright of all poems on this website belong to the individual authors. Gwendolyn Brooks invents a new meaning for the word "autumn" in this poem: "It is summer-gone that I see, it is summer-gone." This commenting section is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page. The autumn weather around her is a convenient metaphor for the arriving at the middle-age phase of her life.
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"Something in me isn’t ready / to let go of summer so easily," Karina Borowicz writes in this poem about the last of summer's bounty.Mary Oliver was known for her poems about nature. Ay, where are they?
That holds true for the yellow leaves of autumn, and the halcyon days of summer. It's a poem about autumn with action! Autumn Poem Soft breeze pushing amber Down to the lime green grass. Dreary weather, for dreary days. "Theme in Yellow" by Carl Sandburg Our editors handpick the products that we feature.
Keats progresses through the stages of the season, from ripening fruits to increasingly cold nights, displaying an appreciation for every moment. From Gillian Clarke's Selected Poems Autumn Fires Robert Louis Stevenson In the other gardens And all up in the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smoke trail! Oh, I "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
"Wandering aimlessly, the narrator of this poem is filled with sudden exuberance at being a small part of world around him.
The best autumn poems capture this season of striking change, often using fall as a metaphor to explore the cycle of life.
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Twirling ballerinas Falling to the ground. "To Autumn" by John Keats