Fall Poem Quotes

“We
are Adam and Eve
born out of chaos called
creation
Ribbing me gave you life
yet you forget
there will always be
a part of me in you
yes
I taunted and tempted
you
with my forbidden fruit
does that make
me
the serpent too?
Believe what you will
but if I am exiled
alone
I know we will be
together again someday
naked
without shame
in paradise
My thanks to you
for being in on my
sin”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“The Passing by Stewart Stafford

In the gorgeous death of Autumn,
Tree-bowed alms for the wind,
Sacrificing eye-catching features,
Now primed for Winter, skinned.

Organic shaded palaces looted,
Shells of once-shimmering things,
Shorn of their prettified plumage,
Until born again the following Spring.

Everything is recycled in Nature,
Dead leaves compost the soil,
Turning wheel of rampant Summer,
No memories in the humid broil.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Elysian Way by Stewart Stafford

An eviction deadline decree,
A woodpecker broadcast,
Winter, the incoming actor,
About to enter a clean stage.

The powder blue sky framed,
Fall's aurum, russet and ochre,
Dripping opalescent raindrops,
A red wedding's spangled confetti.

Leaves shushed and shimmered,
In moving vertical waves of surf,
Trees shrugged slowly to begin,
The organic haircut of the ages.

Leaves plunged, spun and floated,
Fallen comrades littered the grass,
Half-assed, surprise resurrections,
As swirling spectral mini vortexes.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford