Autumn Leaves Poetry Anthology

Selected By Nick P

Introduction

Autumn leaves is the theme of this Anthology. All of the poems are about leaves in some ways or other but they all can be looked at in a emotional sense to. Everyone has had fall moments where you think it’s the end but its really only the beginning, just like fall is the end but also the beginning of life on the planet

Table of Contents 1) Cover Page 2) Introduction 3) Table of Contents 4) Poetry by other Authors 5) Fall By Erica L. Ordway and Leaves by Leonard J Sherrott 6) October's Party George Cooper and It's Autumn Again Andrea Rieck 7) Autumn Leaf written by Sharon P. Pinnick and Autumn Leaves by Tom Hyland 8) A Bed in the Leaves By Marian Kennedy and THE LAST LEAF by Harry Behn 9) Autumn Leaves by Shakir Shujaabadi and Autumn By Mary F. 10) W. Shakespeare, Sonnet 28 11) My Poetry 12) The Leaves Attack 13) The Colours of Autumn 14) The Rhymes in Autumn 15) The Beginning of the End 16) Amazed 17)Bibliography

Poetry by other authors

Fall By Erica L. Ordway

A great procession of leaves ushers in fall, Green now disguised by yellow red and brown, Falling and listening to the grounds call, Leaves decorate the outside like a bright crown.

Wind begins this chilly season's fresh start, Slow at first but picks up speed in due time, The way the wind places the leaves is an art, Much like words placed on paper to show rhyme,

Fall is the new victim to winters chill, This season is the one that can destroy, Covering the ground with snow is its thrill, Traces of fall are gone, winter finds joy.

The cycle goes on throughout the long year, Fall can accept this now and has no fear.

Ordway, Erica, Fall, POETRY IN NATURE.COM, http://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=3514, April 26 2010

Leaves

by Leonard J Sherrott

Falling gently with the breeze,

Breaking canopy from the trees,

Leaves of sizes big and small

Flying high, then comes the fall.

Floating gently to the ground

Thousands,millions, without a sound.

Slowly,surely,new leaves grow

Seasons come and seasons go.

Sherrott, Leonard, Leaves, Helium, http://www.helium.com/items/491377-poetry-leaves, April 26 2010

October's Party George Cooper

October gave a party;The leaves by hundreds came-The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,And leaves of every name.The Sunshine spread a carpet,And everything was grand,Miss Weather led the dancing,Professor Wind the band.

The Chestnuts came in yellow,The Oaks in crimson dressed;The lovely Misses MapleIn scarlet looked their best;All balanced to their partners,And gaily fluttered by;The sight was like a rainbowNew fallen from the sky.

Then, in the rustic hollow,At hide-and-seek they played,The party closed at sundown,And everybody stayed.Professor Wind played louder;They flew along the ground;And then the party endedIn jolly "hands around

It's Autumn Again Andrea Rieck  It’s autumn again

Leaves whisper the sound of our pastIn loss they pay a descent To the ground we fall

It’s autumn againOur song is sung by the windEchoes of loss and griefThrough chilled air we wade

It’s autumn againThe waters grow as cold as our heartsWe are alike – crusted in iceIn ourselves we freeze

It’s autumn againFlowers vanish from our sadnessOur beauty grows weak Covered in frost we wither

It’s autumn againThe rain falls like our tearsCan’t dry our eyesFrom the sky we descend

It’s autumn againThe sun shines then fails like usOur sight becomes a wintry grayLost in darkness we will fade

It’s autumn again

Cooper, George, October's Party, Angelfire, http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/musings/AutumnPoems.html, April 28 2010

Rieck, Andrea, It's Autumn Again, PoemHunter.com,http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-s-autumn-again, April 28 2010

AUTUMN LEAF If I were a leaf on a majestic tall tree,And I had the choice, of which I could be,I’d be a maple to turn orange yellow goldWhen the cool autumn winds turned warm nights

cold.

I’d want to be high as high could be,So all of the world would be open to me.I’d sway with the wind, spring, summer and fallUp in the maple so big and so tall.

Then one moonlit night in October’s cold air,A beautiful frost would come paint me with care.All leaves would turn color, as God would have doneTo give the world beauty for short days to come.

Then if I could choose on which day I would fallI pick late October when winds came to call.I’d choose Sunday morning so bright and sunny,As sun through the leaves flowed golden as honey.

I’d pick the sweet moment, when the wind was just right

To let go of my limb and float nice and lightDrifting ever so calmly from the place of my birth,Then gently lie down to my rest here on earth.

Autumn Leaf written by Sharon P. Pinnick

Pinnick, Sharon P. , Autumn Leaf, Country Whispers, http://www.countrywhispers.com/autumnl/ , April 29 2010

Autumn Leaves

I sit here at my window, staring out into space. My mind is a-wandering, searching for your pretty face.

A gentle breeze caresses the trees, bristling and whistling your name. When I hear those Autumn leaves, I breathe a quiet sigh - what a shame!

The golds, and reds, and oranges, twirl and twist within the mist, whispering of a Love once known, and I miss those lips once kissed.

The olive greens, and browns, and limes, these leaves perceive as they intermingle, reminding me that I have myself to blame, for once again, being single!

But pause a moment, consider this, these falling, dying leaves are not in vain. For they will rot, decompose, and re-fertilize, with each droplet of gentle rain.

So, is there a lesson here, for me to learn, as I ponder Nature's course? What is the bond ‘tween these leaves and me, perhaps old nourishment for a New Love's force?

Would you suppose, like Nature's clothes, we have to shed the old to become quite bold, and frolic amidst the Holly and the Ivy, or is this Ode just - one man's Lovelorn Folly?

Tom Hyland

Hyland, Tom, Autumn Leaves, AuthorsDen.com, http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=49168,

April 29 2010

A Bed in the Leaves By Marian Kennedy

My yard is full of leaves todayBrown and yellow and goldI think I'll rake them in a pileHigher than my head

Then I'll pretend it is my bedI'll jump in very quickAnd pile their leaves up over meFor covers soft and thick

I'll just lie there so nice and warmAnd look up in the skyAnd watch more leaves float down for meTo rake up bye and bye

Kennedy, Marian, A Bed in The Leaves, Teaching First, http://www.teachingfirst.net/Poems/Autumn.html, May 2 2010

THE LAST LEAFby Harry Behn

A few leaves stay for a while on the treesAfter their color begins to turn,And no other leaves seem as gold as theseNot even the ones our bonfires burnWith golden flames in piles on the ground.A few leaves stay so long that I foundThe one last leaf on a tree in the snow,And when a galloping wind came roundThe edge of our house and started to blowSnow dust to sparkles floating free. When the wind ran away, almost with me,And sunshine settled quiet and cold.There, like a bird, still on the treeWas that lonesome leaf, no longer goldBut curly and brown and dry and old.

Behn, Harry, THE LAST LEAF, Teaching First, http://www.teachingfirst.net/Poems/Autumn.html, May 2 2010

Autumn Leavesby Shakir ShujaabadiHere, some honour loyaltySome prize mannersWe are autumn leavesWe fear the wind

Shujaabadi, Shakir, Autumn Leaves, Poetry translation Center,

http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poems/165/Autumn_Leaves, May 2 2010

AUTUMN

Colorful leaves falling down,touching the ground, turning around,Autumn.Pumpkin pies, dreadful skys,Autumn.Jack - o - lanterns glowing bright,Got a hat, hold on tight,Autumn.Shorter days, football plays,Autumn.Goblins, ghost, witch's toast,Autumn.

By Mary F.

F, Mary, Autumn, Elaines Autumn Page, http://www.rosebriar.uk.com/seasons/autumn.html, May 3 2010

That time of year thou may’st in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang:

In me thou see’st the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west,Which by-and-by black night doth take away,Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest:

In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,That on the ashes of his youth doth lieAs the death-bed whereon it must expire,Consumed with that which it was nourish’d by:

This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,To love that well which thou must leave ere long. W. Shakespeare, Sonnet 28

Shakespeare, William, Time and Seasons, http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/11/a-poem-for-leaf-fall/, May 2 2010

My Poetry

The Leaves Attack

Look at all the leaves

Falling to and fro,

All of them different colours.

Falling down to the ground.

Doom awaits them when they hit the earth.

The people waiting below,

Rakes in hand,

Prepared to defend their land.

The Colours of Autumn

See all the colours

Yellow, red, orange and brown

Fall, so majestic

The Rhymes in Autumn

Leaves are floating everywhere

People stop, stand and stare

Yellow orange brown and red

The trees all start to go to bed

This beautiful season called fall

I call it autumn that is all

The Beginning of the End

The leaves are coming off of the trees.

I guess it must be autumn.

Somehow summer has gone without me taking notice.

Off to school I go.

Look at all of the leaves

Amazed

I look up to the sky, and I see a bunch of leaves falling down at me.

I sit amazed and follow a leaf as it falls.

All of the colors and shapes are different nothing ever thee same.

Bibliography Behn, Harry, THE LAST LEAF, Teaching First, http://www.teachingfirst.net/Poems/Autumn.html, May 2 2010 Cooper, George, October's Party, Angelfire, http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/musings/AutumnPoems.html, April 28

2010 F, Mary, Autumn, Elaines Autumn Page, http://www.rosebriar.uk.com/seasons/autumn.html, May 3 2010 Hyland, Tom, Autumn Leaves, AuthorsDen.com, http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=49168, April

29 2010 Kennedy, Marian, A Bed in The Leaves, Teaching First, http://www.teachingfirst.net/Poems/Autumn.html, May 2

2010 Ordway, Erica, Fall, POETRY IN NATURE.COM, http://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=3514,

April 26 2010 Pinnick, Sharon P. , Autumn Leaf, Country Whispers, http://www.countrywhispers.com/autumnl/ , April 29 2010 Rieck, Andrea, It's Autumn Again, PoemHunter.com,http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-s-autumn-again, April

28 2010 Shakespeare, William, Time and Seasons, http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/11/a-poem-for-leaf-fall/,

May 2 2010 Sherrott, Leonard, Leaves, Helium, http://www.helium.com/items/491377-poetry-leaves, April 26 2010 Shujaabadi, Shakir, Autumn Leaves, Poetry translation Center,

http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poems/165/Autumn_Leaves, May 2 2010