Tag Archives: Autumn

Whose woods these are …

Frost left unnamed, but noted it was onewhose house was in the village,and I look out at woodsbehind our house in Maine,they, too, are lonely, dark and deepand no paths cross themeven to Spinney Creek,but the question still makes sense. … Continue reading

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Homage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Earth’s crammed with heavenand every common bush afire with God;but only they who see,take off their shoes,dip their toes in an ice-cold stream,sketch what some may call a weedfor a homebound friend,explain to a childwhy leaves change color in autumn,pray … Continue reading

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Guest Post from Donna Knutson

So many thanks to Donna Knutson for letting me share this beautiful poem. I am taking time to be with family in Colorado and consider all the gifts I have received, all the possibilities for giving. It is a quiet … Continue reading

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Blessing for a Child born in Autumn

Born into the color of chrysanthemums –umber and amber,purple and gold and bronze, may you have color in life. Born into the leaf-fallingand the life-clarifying time,of the scarlet-chasing of maples,and the dark true silhouettesof oak and elm,bare as bones, may … Continue reading

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Autumn Prayer for things small and short, 2020

The wonderful Grace Bower of Aotearoa New Zealand, whose fabric arts are legendary, shared a memory of a poem of mine from last year and I needed to re-write it — some of the lines are the same … most … Continue reading

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The view from my study window — Guest Post William A. Deans

William A. Deans of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, visual artist and poet calls most of the pieces I see “The view from my study window” which I think is the kind of literary humility that says — Look, here, at the … Continue reading

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Last week of summer, 2019

These are the signs of season — grandchildren visited across the country, caught in a photograph limbs tangled in play as wild as swamp grasses under the shadow of the flying geese, a first anniversary of a friend’s death, and … Continue reading

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The Work of Summer

Most people know Howard Thurman’s The Work of Christmas with its familiar challenge, not for tinsel and pageant and family time, but for the hard, cold days of January in the northern hemisphere. When the song of the angel is … Continue reading

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Fall — guest post Heather Kelly

Heather Kelly writes from Invercargill in the south island, evoking the season. She wrote this in February. I read it in the northern hemisphere longing for true spring and the promise of summer.   The heatwave of Summer still very … Continue reading

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A poem — Leaving

The tourists come to these woods in cars and buses that choke highways, and mighty glad we are in New Hampshire for the dollars that keep our diners, the mom-and-pop motels, the state and national parks, country stands bursting apple … Continue reading

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