Autumnal Poetry Box

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    Autumnal Poetry Box

    The scudding gray clouds tinged darker yet
    Hinting at tomorrow’s new snow we will get
    Wild turkeys flock and cover the cornfield
    Looking for ears the harvest did not yield
    A small stand of pine all huddled together
    Evergreen they care not the coming weather
    All about them can be seen trees a blazing
    Their true color shown mid autumns phasing
    The cold wind gives voice to trees thought
    Contemplating what will be and will be not
    Listening with care to what the trees said
    In sleepy low slow voices akin to the dead
    Talking to their kin who laid on the porch
    Drawn and quartered to be put to the torch
    White is the promise as Octobers end nears
    Frosting on windows in long silvery spears
    The smell of mulled cider heated very warm
    Encroached on the usual smells of the farm
    Thoughts dwell on holidays and winter cold
    Already can I see a spring bright and bold

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    DennisScott commented on Autumnal Poetry Box

    06-22-2009

    This probably took a long time to get each line to rhyme and be of the same length shows your vernacular strength but what I want to know already is: was the absents of punctuation necessary?

    WinterFrost

    06/22/2009

    Well I could have put a period or ? at the end of every line... however in keeping with shape poetry styles Ichose to keep true to the form, rather than punctuate. Go ahead and copy it and put in appropriate punctuation, it won't be long before you no longer have a box

    ginga commented on Autumnal Poetry Box

    06-17-2009

    What we have her is a storyteller's poetry for sure. The personification of the nature scenes comes alive in this one. Thanks for the pleasant read. ginga

    Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

    Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

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