Autumn Potpourri Poetry by Lois Lee
Autumn People If I designed a personality test, For the types of people who like autumn best; I’d focus on warm ones; the rest I’d dismiss, And create a profile that looks like this: Why do you choose autumn as your pick of the lot? What gives fall that something that others haven’t got? Is it Thanksgiving’s bounty, or Indian summer’s balm? Or the splendid burst of color in the realm of calm? It’s the hayrides in the country, romantics would say, With a glorious full moon lighting shocks of hay; It’s the smell of apple cider from the old wooden press, Or gathering nuts and getting a russet-leafed caress.
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While most would put their marks on all the above, Others add that football makes it a time to love; But, on one topic, surely, autumn folks will agree— What makes the season special is unparalleled beauty!
Autumn Nights Autumn nights Bring ambrosial delights; Where a bouquet of musk Is the essence of dusk. Autumn nights May bring transient delights; When autumn’s child declines To taste sweet autumn wine. Autumn nights Bring amaranthine delights; To those who know the truth Of autumn’s fountain of youth. page 7 • bohemia • november 2011
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