Poets Forum

SEE WHAT GOD DID

Where September meets October

In crispy blue and golden days,

Leaves begin their transformation

In autumn’s color-wonder ways…

Annual amber tints their edges

Then adds flamboyant scarlet too

Until trees are glory gilded In flaming multi-colored hue. Our great Giver paints a picture

Of grandeur with His artistry

Any my heart reads His signature

In every blazing maple tree. — Faye Boyette

Wise Benton

AUTUMN ACROSTIC

Air grows colder, leaves colorize

Under clear and cloudy skies

Time ripened harvests hide next year’s seed

Used leaves drift to the soil they feed

Mark one season’s end now, another’s start

New festivals and feasts grow in the heart.

— Mary Mullane Deceased

FALL

golden leaves blowing down streets chasing away summer

— Jeanette Heffington Benton

CINQUAIN

The cat and I enjoy relaxing on the porch this cool autumn Wednesday morning.

Thankful!

— Pat Laster Benton

LEAVE IT TO THE POETS

Summer turns up the heat for all that it’s worth; it’s all about the jet stream – science tells us how it works.

But leave it to the poets to bring summer down to earth on the wings of a butterfly, a honeybee and a hummingbird;

And on chariots of fire a sight to behold – radiant fall-colored spires of red, yellow and gold!

Granted science will inform us when it’s autumn, I suppose; but leave it to the poets to turn fall into a rose.

— Mike Pafundi

Deceased

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To submit poems for publication, please send poems of 16 or fewer lines to Dennis Patton, 2512 Springhill Circle, Alexander, AR 72002, or patton_dr@hotmail.com.