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Autumn

Diwali, Manchester 2001 - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

I think of windows as I think of caves…

The Neep-Fields By the Sea - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

Ye’d wonder foo the seasons rin
This side o’ Tweed an’ Tyne;
The hairst’s awa’; October-month
Cam in a whilie syne,
But the stooks are oot in Scotland yet

Autumn Compensations - by Helen Cruickshank

{ Poem }

Books in cosy littered room ,
Feet in slippered ease,
Silver candles in the gloom,
Stars in naked trees

Lady’s-Slipper Orchid - by Andrew Young

{ Poem }

Though I know well enough
/ To hunt the Lady’s Slipper now
/ Is playing blindman’s-buff,
/ For it was June She put it on
/ And grey…

Autumn - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

O whence the leaves
scuttering down Easter Road,
sycamore and rowan
desperate as refugees

Duilleag - by Niall O’Gallagher

{ Poem }

Dhuilleag, dè an teachdaireachd
a th’ agad dhuinn an-diugh?

’S e gun tàinig foghar oirnn
’s gun deach na craobhan ruadh.

The Old Lady - by Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn
Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

Autumn, and the nights are darkening.
The old lady tells us of her past once more.

Latha Foghair - by Somhairle MacGill-Eain
Sorley MacLean

{ Poem }

’S mi air an t-slios ud
latha foghair,
na sligean a’ sianail mum chluasan
agus sianar marbh ri mo ghualainn

Fall, Leaves, Fall - by Emily Bronte

{ Poem }

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

In Macedonian Markets - by Ante Popovski

{ Poem }

After Pradech
/
/ The market had everything:
/ that Macedonian autumn
/ earth talked through mothers
/ standing over fruit
/
/ cooling it with water
/ for the eyes of the customers,
/ caressing…

Leaves Falling Quietly Falling - by Norman Bissell

{ Poem }

green brown golden heaps
piling up where they drop
beneath bare-armed branches
leaves falling quietly falling

September - by Dorothy Lawrenson

{ Poem }

Summer is leaving too, exchanging its gold
for brass and copper. It is not so strange
to feel nostalgia for the present; already
this September evening is as old
as a photograph of itself.

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