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Autumn Poetry: A Collection for the Season
Bewitching poetry for the autumn season.
Excerpt. (c) Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
GHOSTS
a simple light upon gray shadows
and the resolution fades beyond the rising hills
we realize
they are within our waking souls
and while they roam among the sallow wood smoke trees
and filter in through doors
they take delight in tapping wooden floors
at night where shaken covers fall to floor
and dry cool air becomes pooled beneath the rim
of sun born days
From read poetry , September 20, 2020 (Blog Titled): "8 Poetry Collections for Sweater Weather."
"A poet of the rural Midwest, Jan Darrow's work is deeply rooted in the natural world. A lover of ghost stories and abandoned spaces, Autumn A Collection for the Season evokes the haunting spirit of Autumn."
Other books by Jan Darrow and available on Amazon
The Blue flash fiction
I Belong to the poetry for children
Winter Building Sound
Excerpt. (c) Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
GHOSTS
a simple light upon gray shadows
and the resolution fades beyond the rising hills
we realize
they are within our waking souls
and while they roam among the sallow wood smoke trees
and filter in through doors
they take delight in tapping wooden floors
at night where shaken covers fall to floor
and dry cool air becomes pooled beneath the rim
of sun born days
From read poetry , September 20, 2020 (Blog Titled): "8 Poetry Collections for Sweater Weather."
"A poet of the rural Midwest, Jan Darrow's work is deeply rooted in the natural world. A lover of ghost stories and abandoned spaces, Autumn A Collection for the Season evokes the haunting spirit of Autumn."
Other books by Jan Darrow and available on Amazon
The Blue flash fiction
I Belong to the poetry for children
Winter Building Sound
90 pages, Paperback
First published November 26, 2013
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About the author
Jan Darrow
9 books2 followersJan Darrow is a graduate of The University of Michigan, and currently lives in Michigan with her husband and daughter. She has been published online and in print. Her focus at the moment is children's books, and also writes under S.E. Pearl. In addition, she loves to write about ghosts!
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October 11, 2024
One thing about this collection of poems is the fact that they’re very big on imagery if anything at all, however something that drove me a little insane is how choppy the body of work comes across overall. I love a variety when it comes to poetry but very little flowed nicely and worked well. Some of it just had me going ?!?!, lol. But like I said, this collection’s strength lies within its imagery. Which in the case of the main theme being “Autumn Poetry”, that served its purpose.
Out of all of the poems my favorites were “7pm”, “Daughter” and “By Bone”, so let me share my thoughts on each individually as well as excerpts and you can see what material we’re working with from my favorites.
(7PM)
“At dusk the house is still except the sound of silverware on plates and ice in tall green glasses. Outside the wind lifts branches of the trees that line the drive. A two lane road drifts past alone. There is no path to wander back into the past she realizes as she cuts the apple pie.” (P.22).
I instantly adored this one as it's just simply cozy and presents you the feeling of autumn through both visual and through sound. You’re asked to both hear the scene that we all know very well and to visualize it at once. It’s not because it’s a very entertaining moment but it embraces a mundane autumn evening where the tiniest noises like the sound of silverware are the loudest in an isolated space while the sounds of the raging wind outside creates a sound the reader/narrator can see but not hear. It’s peaceful. It’s a very simple poem and it accomplishes what it’s set out to.
(DAUGHTER)
“It isn’t easy having to learn your way around September once again and in the afternoon you talk your angled words around my head and to yourself stories told through your uncertain eyes of boys and other girls across oceans of classrooms” (P.28).
This one stood out as it’s once again a familiar feeling we know as school returns as does its social and academic aspects, although primarily the social is what’s highlighted here. The narrator fixates on what the other classmates are thinking about and observing them. It isn’t easy for the narrator to calmly let this pass and I think once again, the familiarity and normalcy of this completes the autumn you have growing up and that’s nostalgic in both good and bad ways.
(BY BONE)
“There is no falling apart we are held together by bone honoring internal caches of stone markers left to rest on eternal pieces of property we do not own, we are ancient rooms of perfect light born in memory” (P.58)
This poem is probably the most metaphorical out of the ones I’ve selected to highlight for my review but once again is very strong in its imagery and symbolism. It’s simple yet strong and it stands out from any of the others in my personal opinion.
But once again, it was a short collection and I wasn’t very impressed or satisfied with the majority of it is fine and that tends to happen with poetry sometimes. I think there's a lot of great concepts if they were explored in different directions and I think more editing would save the issue of choppy poetry. Anyways, it’s still a good read!
Out of all of the poems my favorites were “7pm”, “Daughter” and “By Bone”, so let me share my thoughts on each individually as well as excerpts and you can see what material we’re working with from my favorites.
(7PM)
“At dusk the house is still except the sound of silverware on plates and ice in tall green glasses. Outside the wind lifts branches of the trees that line the drive. A two lane road drifts past alone. There is no path to wander back into the past she realizes as she cuts the apple pie.” (P.22).
I instantly adored this one as it's just simply cozy and presents you the feeling of autumn through both visual and through sound. You’re asked to both hear the scene that we all know very well and to visualize it at once. It’s not because it’s a very entertaining moment but it embraces a mundane autumn evening where the tiniest noises like the sound of silverware are the loudest in an isolated space while the sounds of the raging wind outside creates a sound the reader/narrator can see but not hear. It’s peaceful. It’s a very simple poem and it accomplishes what it’s set out to.
(DAUGHTER)
“It isn’t easy having to learn your way around September once again and in the afternoon you talk your angled words around my head and to yourself stories told through your uncertain eyes of boys and other girls across oceans of classrooms” (P.28).
This one stood out as it’s once again a familiar feeling we know as school returns as does its social and academic aspects, although primarily the social is what’s highlighted here. The narrator fixates on what the other classmates are thinking about and observing them. It isn’t easy for the narrator to calmly let this pass and I think once again, the familiarity and normalcy of this completes the autumn you have growing up and that’s nostalgic in both good and bad ways.
(BY BONE)
“There is no falling apart we are held together by bone honoring internal caches of stone markers left to rest on eternal pieces of property we do not own, we are ancient rooms of perfect light born in memory” (P.58)
This poem is probably the most metaphorical out of the ones I’ve selected to highlight for my review but once again is very strong in its imagery and symbolism. It’s simple yet strong and it stands out from any of the others in my personal opinion.
But once again, it was a short collection and I wasn’t very impressed or satisfied with the majority of it is fine and that tends to happen with poetry sometimes. I think there's a lot of great concepts if they were explored in different directions and I think more editing would save the issue of choppy poetry. Anyways, it’s still a good read!
October 30, 2021
this was decent. i wanted to read some poetry that was all about autumn, because you can really dive into the imagery of the foliage and wind and crisp atmosphere, and this kinda scratched that itch. from a thematic and topic standpoint, this collection’s focus on autumn was nice. but from a poetry standpoint, it was just okay. several of the poems felt like they lacked something, and were just run-on sentences of imagery. i wanted more from a lot of the poems. additionally, the poet didn’t have much rhythm or meter in this. the poems didn’t read effortlessly, and instead felt choppy.
nevertheless, this was nice to read outside surrounded by fall foliage - the oranges, reds, yellows, browns. and the crisp autumn morning air.
my favorite poems were yellow, tonight, scarecrow, salt year, a murder of crows, dr. frankenstein’s laboratory, when i’m old, and the venomous vapor.
nevertheless, this was nice to read outside surrounded by fall foliage - the oranges, reds, yellows, browns. and the crisp autumn morning air.
my favorite poems were yellow, tonight, scarecrow, salt year, a murder of crows, dr. frankenstein’s laboratory, when i’m old, and the venomous vapor.
January 26, 2018
I really enjoyed Jan Darrow’s poetry about my favorite season, autumn. Some of the poems made me feel like I was there. Some poems painted beautiful art in my mind as I read. I especially enjoyed the poem, YELLOW on pg. 19. I highly recommend this book for everyone who loves poetry as well as autumn. Would love to read more of Jan’s work. Thank you for your book.
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