Tag Archives: Autumn

The Annual Maple Dance

Scott Bates’s “Maple Dance” never gets old.

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Thinned Back to Bare Wood

Hirshfield’s beautiful poem about autumn compares a stripped trees to a revered icon.

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Trees Don Their Fall Finery

Dickinson’s excitement about fall colors can be seen in her stepping out of her comfort zone and putting “a trinket on.”

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the passing of all shining things

e.e. cummings has a dialogue with Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” in his own poem about autumn. I include Frost and Oliver in the reflection as well.

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September Days Are Here

A lovely “September” poem by Helen Hunt Jackson.

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No Flowers, No Leaves, November

An antidote to feeling gloomy in November is to embrace the gloom by reading gloomy November poems. I offer several here.

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Nature’s Autumn Jazz Tune

An autumn poem to lift your spirits.

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The Lesson of the Falling Leaves

Clifton has written simple but powerful poems about letting go, including this autumnal poem.

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Letting Go of Summer

Poet Borowicz doesn’t want to let go of summer until she remembers her great-grandmother.

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