I didn't know I was grateful
for such late-autumn
bent-up cornfields
From “Home” by Bruce Weigl
More poems for Autumn:
“Autumn Leaves” by Marilyn Chin
The dead piled up, thick, fragrant, on the fire escape ...
“The Widening Spell of the Leaves” by Larry Levis
Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill ...
“Autumn” by Rainer Maria Rilke
The leaves fall, fall as from far ...
“That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)” by William Shakespeare
That time of year thou mayst in me behold ...
“Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today” by Emily Jungmin Yoon
I read a Korean poem ...
“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being ...
“Merry Autumn” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
It’s all a farce,—these tales they tell ...
“To Autumn” by John Keats
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ...
“Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways” by Brenda Hillman
—i pull the hate ...
“When Autumn Came” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
This is the way that autumn came to the trees ...
“Late Autumn Wasp” by James Hoch
One must admire the desperate way ...
“God's World” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
O, world, I cannot hold thee close enough ...
“Autumn” by Richard Garcia
Both lying on our sides, making love in ...
“After a Death” by Tomas Tranströmer
Translated by Robert Bly
Once there was a shock ...
“Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]” by Jenny Boully
But the rocking chair appears to be missing ...
“After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree ...
“The Blower of Leaves” by January Gill O'Neil
Always there is sky after sky waiting to fall ...
“Leaves” by Lloyd Schwartz
Every October it becomes important, no, necessary ...
“Equinox” by Elizabeth Alexander
Now is the time of year when bees are wild ...