ConfessionBy Countee CullenIf for a day joy masters me, Think not my wounds are healed; Far deeper than the scars you see, I keep…LoveHeartache & LossNatureFallSocial CommentariesRace & EthnicityLivingSorrow & GrievingFor All Ages + 2 more
November Sunday MorningBy Alvin FeinmanAnd the light, a wakened heyday of air Tuned low and clear and wide, A radiance now that would emblaze…NatureFallTrees & Flowers
Post TruthBy David TaitA week of autumn snow, and today the sun, the buildings fizzy with melting, the beggar draping his sheets…NatureFallTrees & FlowersWeatherLivingParenthoodRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsVerse FormsSonnetStanza FormsTercetTechniquesImagery + 7 more
p1August 15By Zakaria MohammedI await the end of August and the murder of September. I am here, tardy Autumn, waiting for you. I’ve…NatureFall
A Mabon CrownBy Annie FinchOur voices press from us and twine around the year's fermenting wine Yellow fall roars Over the ground…NatureSummerFallTrees & Flowers
OctoberBy May Swenson1 A smudge for the horizon that, on a clear day, shows the hard edge of hills and buildings on the …NatureFallAnimalsWeatherThe BodyRelationshipsFamily & Ancestors
And Now It’s September,By Barbara Crookerand the garden diminishes: cucumber leaves rumpled and rusty, zucchini felled by borers, tomatoes sparse…NatureFallTrees & Flowers
Autumnal EquinoxBy Joseph MasseySober for once, for what— for the words to budge. We spent summer propped up by each other's stuttering…NatureSummerFallSocial CommentariesCities & Urban LifeTown & Country LifeLivingJoy & Contentment
fallen leavesBy John Brandifallen leaves the abbot sweeps around them NatureFallReligionActivitiesVerse FormsHaikuJoy & Contentment
p1Jean RhysBy Sandra LimIt’s now within an hour of sundown of a late November afternoon. It was a beautiful day, the cold burned…NatureFallLivingLife ChoicesArts & SciencesPoetry & PoetsReading & BooksDisappointmentGrief + 2 more
I Saw This Day ComingBy Stacy SzymaszekI saw this day coming class would end and it would be night time to attach bike lights tonight I lit…NatureFallRelationshipsFriends & EnemiesActivitiesJobs & WorkingSchool & LearningArts & SciencesPoetry & PoetsHalloween + 3 more
p1ThirstBy Antonia PozziNow you want me to tell you a history of fish while the lake clouds over? But don’t you see how thirst…NatureFallAnimalsLandscapes & PastoralsLivingTime & BrevityRelationshipsAnxiety & InsecurityMelancholy & Despair + 2 more
MonumentsBy Myra Sklarew Today the moon sees fit to come between a parched earth and sun, hurrying the premature darkness. …NatureFallStars, Planets, HeavensSocial CommentariesCities & Urban LifeRace & EthnicityHistory & PoliticsLivingDeathParenthoodRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsArts & SciencesIndependence Day + 7 more
p1Tomorrow, No, TomorrowerBy Bradley TrumpfhellerFrom up here in the leaves’ no-kidding goldishness you’d guess everyone was already in lovely w/ each…LoveDesire & PassionNatureFallTrees & FlowersSocial CommentariesGender & SexualityReligionThe SpiritualRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsArts & SciencesLanguage & LinguisticsJoy & ContentmentOptimism + 8 more
The Death of a SoldierBy Wallace StevensLife contracts and death is expected, As in a season of autumn. The soldier falls. He does not become…NatureFallWeatherSocial CommentariesWar & ConflictLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingMemorial DayGriefMelancholy & Despair + 4 more
Gathering LeavesBy Robert FrostSpades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make …NatureFallTrees & FlowersThe MindDoubt & ContemplationStanza FormsRhymed StanzaDisappointmentSports and Outdoor Activities + 2 more
The Census-TakerBy Robert FrostI came an errand one cloud-blowing evening To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house Of one room and…NatureFallTrees & FlowersSocial CommentariesTown & Country LifeLivingSorrow & GrievingTime & BrevityActivitiesJobs & WorkingAnxiety & InsecurityDisappointment + 5 more
The Comedian as the Letter CBy Wallace Stevens i The World without Imagination Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, The sovereign ghost. As…NatureSpringFallSeas, Rivers, & StreamsLivingParenthoodThe MindDoubt & ContemplationRelationshipsHome LifeActivitiesTravels & JourneysArts & SciencesHumor & SatireLanguage & LinguisticsPhilosophyPoetry & PoetsMetersBlank VerseAnxiety & InsecurityDisappointmentHumor + 15 more
Six QuatrainsBy Ursula K. Le Guin AUTUMN gold of amber red of ember brown of umber all September MCCOY CREEK Over the bright shallows…NatureSpringFallWinterLandscapes & PastoralsLivingTime & BrevityStanza FormsQuatrain + 2 more
Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, TodayBy Emily Jungmin YoonI read a Korean poem with the line “Today you are the youngest you will ever be.” Today I am the oldest…LoveRomantic LoveNatureFallArts & SciencesLanguage & Linguistics