Autumn Wind

autumn wind

(10/27 , 1996)

FIRST PLACE

leaves piling 

on my welcome mat 

autumn wind                   

--kim

SECOND PLACE

autumn wind    

the candle winks behind    

the carved pumpkin's grin                                           

--Mary Fran Meer

THIRD PLACE

the gate lifts      

for the long black limo      

. . . autumn wind                             

--Michael Dylan Welch

BELOW THIRD PLACE

the playgroup watch  

their teacher bury a bird -  

autumn wind                     

--Sue Stanford       

autumn winds -       

each wave taking us away       

from our sandcastle..                                       

--Harsangeet Kaur Bhullar         

broadly smiling   

a lady in grey cycles   

against the autumn wind                                        

--Arnold Vermeeren             

hang-gliding             

on autumn winds -             

mountain eagle                                    

--Jeanne Emrich                      

bike ride                      

pushing me home                      

autumn wind                                         

--roberta beary

autumn wind           

two black kittens huddle           

under the portico                                     

--Susan  

autumn wind--                      

the old chow snapping                      

at whirling leaves                                                  

--Ellen Compton                              

all alone                             

in the autumn winds                             

the last leaf                                                

--Brad91       

loose ropes      

slap against the building -      

autumn night wind                                   

--John Hudak                  

One brown leaf                  

shapes the autumn wind,                  

back, front, falling.                                               

--Zuiho                       

reddened with fever,                       

trees, I too have spent the day shivering                        

autumn wind                                          

--Joyce Clement                                  

Shivers at the touch                                 

of a gust of autumn wind                                 

the last golden leaf                                                               

--Ted M. Zachwieja                           

in the autumn wind                          

even the scarecrow                          

rests                                   

--Dan Curtis        

invisible kid       

tornadoes the leaf pile       

autumn wind                          

--Lee Lawton                 

leaning into rattling leaves,                 

remembering love...                 

autumn wind                                   

 --Brahm Muhlstock                            

sudden autumn wind --                           

from among the cottonwoods                           

a coyote howl                                                

--Charlie              

stripped bare by autumn winds -             

through the trees             

a cloudless sky appears                                                 

--Mark Alan Osterhaus                      

Wicked Autumn wind                      

blasts through maple grove                      

---crimson devils swirl                                           

--MikeF                              

swirled by autumn winds                              

dried maple leaf cyclones                              

rush past my door                                                         

--Cindy

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