Autumn Things

Gold cherry

By Angusfolklore

Wed, 06 Oct 2021
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Autumn things are not at the beginning,

but the winding stream that leads to an end,

the clogged up water course filled with

the gold of leaves and discarded fruit

from over abundant summer days.

Skies and trees blaze red.

Nothing dies. The sunsets sign,

something creeps in, the fear

of a year become middle aged.

We hurry on, because to linger

is to meet something in the woods,

woken from reverse hibernation,

Samhain’s heathen transient.

 

Heady smell of damp in all senses,

these things which might be

neither falls from the oaks

nor given up by heaven,

bronze mystery treasure

on the tawny forest floor,

rewards for the finder.

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Submitted by onemorething on

Very lovely! 

 

Submitted by onemorething on

This is so very lovely, in fact, that it's Pick of the Day. A perfect poem for the season. I hope the painting's ok, it's called Autumn Tangle and is from here: 

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Holmes_-_Autumn_...

Please share on social media if you can. 

 

Submitted by Angusfolklore on

Thanks, lovely pic

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

'bronze mystery treasure

on the tawny forest floor,'

Wonderful!

 

Submitted by Angusfolklore on

A poem compose in a rush...sometimes the best

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I love the first line. And then later, "Nothing dies" and "things which might be" and the last 3 lines, you evoke such a feeling of magic, not the friendly fluffy unicorn kind. Knowledge as old as the shape of our bones, its reason forgotten

 

Submitted by Angusfolklore on

How evocative is autumn in a wood? Not a time of dwindling, but growing.

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

This is such a perfect poem for the season, with all its Autumn mysteries. 

Jenny. 

 

Submitted by Angusfolklore on

Thanks, Jenny. A spur of the moment poem in preparation for going out into the woods and kicking about the leaves!

 

Submitted by hilary west on

Hi,

I liked your poem : Excellent stuff !!!"

 

Submitted by Angusfolklore on

Thanks, Hilary, much appreciated.