“I love the outdoors. The weather is nice, and it’s the perfect temperature to play sports outside.”
“The leaves changing. I’m not too excited about the sports.”
“The weather. It’s not too hot, not too cold. On some days it’s a little chilly, but it’s better than the summer heat.”
“Thanksgiving, because I get to eat as much as I want. I’m also excited about the football season.”
“Better weather, and playing and watching football.”
“My birthday in October, because I get presents and get to have a party.”
“The weather. It’s really nice, and it’s not too cold. I like Thanksgiving, too.”
“I like all the leaves falling and all the great holidays coming up.”
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RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 8 months ago
Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them - The summer flowers depart - Sit still - as all transform'd to stone, Except your musing heart.
sunflower_sue 5 years, 8 months ago
peotry? All right, I'll play:
Leaf after leaf drops off, flower after flower, Some in the chill, some in the warmer hour: Alive they flourish, and alive they fall, And Earth who nourished them receives them all. Should we, her wiser sons, be less content To sink into her lap when life is spent?
-Walter Savage Landor
Pywacket 5 years, 8 months ago
The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown-- The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town.
the maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
~Emily Dickinson
I love Keats' "To Autumn," but it's longer. My favorite images from that one spring from the lines,
"..Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep..."
and
"..While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue..."
Reading those lines, can't you just feel that soft wind and the last warmth of the low sun and smell those stubbled fields?
I'm saving aside my favorite autumn poem, though, to see if anyone else will post it.
snap_pop_no_crackle 5 years, 8 months ago
Hear the sledges with the bell, silver bells What a world of merriment their melody foretells How they tinkle, tinkle tinkle in the icy air of night While the stars that oversprinkle all the heavens seem to twinkle And so on & so forth.....
snap_pop_no_crackle 5 years, 8 months ago
Oops, I skipped a season. Never mind.
JJE007 5 years, 8 months ago
Excepting Fall
Those damned leaves come to fill me with this dread that I will have to rake them up for bags. I sometimes wish these cursed trees were dead but crave their foiling summer's light that nags.
Squirrels are digging holes in my green lawn. and I will have to fill them up with dirt. They toil 'til dusk, begin before the dawn. I wish I knew some way to make them hurt.
I hate the taunting fall, its heat and cold. Its weather never leaves my world alone. It only tells me I am growing old. I don't enjoy its message or its tone.
The dogs are happy, so I'll stay inside. My summer's gone, I'll sit and wish I'd died.
---Actually. I love fall but didn't want to write anything nice about it!~)
GretchenJP 5 years, 8 months ago
Everyone is quite the poet today! I am impressed! Autumn is the perfect season... the weather is beautiful, I love walking through the crunchy leaves and I LOVE LOVE LOVE Halloween... pumpkins, skeletons and harvets! Oh my!
Pywacket 5 years, 8 months ago
JJE007~ Bravo! That was brilliant. I love it.
Gretchen--What's a harvet?! I want to be one for Halloween, my favorite holiday.
Just kidding. I know what you meant--but it still might be fun to imagine what a harvet might look like and go as one. Sounds like a cross between a harlot and a civet. That definitely has costume possibilities...
GretchenJP 5 years, 7 months ago
HAHA! Clearly I can't spell.
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