Autumn sunset
blooms amber,
glows blood orange,
and lingers
in sky and treetop.
Wild dogwood berries
mix with acorns
and crabapples.
They snap underfoot
and perfume the air.
Everywhere color
fades to darkness.
No! Linger longer,
color wake and sky glow,
cast this fairy spell,
make sunset lengthen
until dark night
is the longest
of the year.
Copyright 2015 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: Winter’s coming, but we’ve had a long, delicious fall with a universe of color. I meant this post for this morning, but life intervened, and my kids needed me. Plus, I have a plain old ordinary run of the mill horrible cold. So I’m late posting, but I want to dedicate this post to MM and BB, who’ve had a hard week, but still find time for beauty, magic, love and Oklahoma sunsets. Also, it may be too late, but this is also my post for Poetry Friday, this week hosted thanks to Buffy Silverman at Buffy’s Blog. Hope everyone has a great weekend!!
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Friendly Fairy Tales 
This is poem is very scenic and has a warm magical feeling to it! n v n
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Yeah, thanks! Doesn’t “n v n” mean Not Very Nice?
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What. Really? it’s actually a horizontal smiley face with happy closed eyes and a smiling mouth. sorry, maybe i’ll jst use some Japanese emojis next time to avoid confusion.
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Gotcha! I figured it was an alternate, but I couldn’t think what. 🙂
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The way it built upward in mood, as the lovely words expressed, really lifted my spirits, Brenda. The perfume of those 3 forms of nature, berries, crabapple and acorns sounds tantalizing. 🙂
The color waking and sun glowing were perfect way to describe an Autumn sunset. Take care and hope this will be it for awhile. Your poor body has been under siege. . . 😦
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The cold has wiped me out. I haven’t been this sick from a cold in years. No energy. But I have to get better soon. It’s been over a week now. Thanks for your kind words about my poem. XOXO
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You inspire me. You words, your vibrant photos, your inclination towards seeing nature through a magickal lens… Thank you! 🙂
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As you inspire me with your belief in love. XOXO
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Thank you! ^_^ xox
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These are my favorite lines:
No! Linger longer,
color wake and sky glow,
Other colors wake in the dark, I guess!
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Yes, the night has different colors and new mysteries. That’s a good point.
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Fall does have the most delicious colors.
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The colors of harvest and plenty. Who wouldn’t love that?
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►Linger longer,
color wake and sky glow,
cast this fairy spell,
make sunset lengthen ►
I like that wish…. I think we have all experienced this sort of imperious feeling, as we notice that times goes by and we can´t stop it, despite all our vain attempt… I think your poem is beautifully penned and catches the sense of the ephemeral beauty that surrounds us…
Sending love and best wishes, dear Ben… Aquileana💫 😀
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Thanks, Aquileana. I don’t think we should go quietly into the night, in this case, winter’s night. 🙂 At least, we should go sprinkling magic about us liberally. Have a great week!
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A magical poem for a beautiful season. I’m envious of your color display!
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The maples were all bare, but my son’s pear tree turned a glorious orange.
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Oklahoma sunsets sound gorgeous…love the blood orange and the snappy perfume you describe!
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Thank, Lynn. MM puts up the most amazing sunset pictures. They are worth the visit. 🙂
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I love how you’ve captured the colors of fall, and that universal wish for them to linger. Lovely! Hope you feel better soon…
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Thanks, Buffy. I appreciate the visit. I hope to feel better soon, too. This is the wrong season to get sick!
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Lovely Brenda – awesome imagery. Hope you feel better soon.
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Thanks, Mary. You are a good friend. XOXO
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Gorgeous poem and photo. I always feel so uplifted when I read one of your posts. Thanks for the beauty you bring each time. Feel better soon. 🙂
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Thanks, Jama, what a nice comment. I love our beautiful world. XOXO
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I wish autumn would ‘linger longer’ too. The color has left, although we’ve had cold, then warmth, then cold again. Love your poem, maybe the last one to read about this ‘universe of color’.
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Yes, fall is fading fast, but I hope we have a few more good days. And thanks!
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Wonderful Brenda. I was very busy yesterday so I’m reading this in the morning. I hope you feel better.
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Thanks, Dan. I am not feeling better yet. Surely it’s coming, though.
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Every season has it’s advantages 🙂
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True enough!
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Hope you shift that cold soon
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Me, too. It’s worse today. I feel like I have wool instead of brains in there.
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I like that you responded, not that your cold is worse
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Thanks for splitting that hair for me. 😉
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
“ORANGE” YOU GLAD FOR THE FALL COLORS???? EXCELLENT, AS USUAL WORK!
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I am glad for the fall colors! And thanks!
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I hope you feel better soon! Simply Saline works wonders for sinuses and opening up the breathing passages…spoken from someone who always gets a cold, and has sinus issues when the barometer drops. Sigh!
The poem is lovely!
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Thanks! I should get myself some relief!
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Lovely, love autumn! Hope you feel better soon
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Thank you!! Me, too!
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Reblogged this on Tell Me About It! and commented:
Sweet Friendly Fairy Brenda’s magical poem Sunset Bloom I love it! 😄💕 I know you will too!
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Hey there I am on my iPad this is new trying to reblog from here. I hope it works! 💕😄
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Seems to’ve! Yeah, thanks!
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Lovely poem. They have had a rough week.
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They have, and it makes me sad. BB has had a rough road.
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Lovely & evocative Brenda! Happy Friday~
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Happy Friday to you, World Traveler! 😉
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I love autumn and its colors. I’m not looking forward to winter. Feel better, real soon.
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Thanks, I appreciate it. I wish I could breathe. Simple, and largely taken for granted, but so vital.
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