Harvest Happiness

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harvest
heavy and round,
happiness

in fall, even the apples
have stars

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The Bees Knees Poetry Friday

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the bees knees
is friends, tea, sunshine,
and poetry

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Golden Days

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nothing makes my heart sing
like fields of wildflowers
and golden days

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Autumn Fragrance

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Wet leaves,
milkweed seed,
painted blooms
honey mead,
fragrance of fall,
floating like Chagall.

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Autumn’s Cool

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autumn’s cool
dwindling days
draw me outside

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Raspberry Leaves

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tiny hydrangea flowers
hide among raspberry leaves,
like autumn-hued beacons

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Love Note

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autumn blooms,
each petal a love note
to seed-stars

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October O’s

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October is a month of O’s:
orange gourds, ogres, owlets, oracles,
octopuses, otters and orangutans on
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In-Between Earth and Sky

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Fields of daisies bloom
between forest and highway,
nodding sunny faces,
in the threshold
between earth and sky. Continue reading

Time to Fold

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The first sparkling flakes
zip, zig and zag before landing
with soft velvet slippers
atop the last pink flowers,
a’drowse in the fading light. Continue reading

Orange Oracle

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The orange oracle
hears the wind’s voice,
chilly with snow and ice
gathering strength.
But today,
it’s warm.
Today,
let’s dance. Continue reading

Youthful Glance

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A slim, willowy tree
gives a youthful glance,
tosses glossy red curls
in a siren dance. Continue reading