Celebrating Poetry Friday

Autumn is coming to a close here on Long Island with dipping temperatures and the meteorologists are bracing themselves for what is to come. Winter storms have already tussled with the landscape in other parts of the United States but I applaud Autumn for the marvelous colors that it bestowed on us this season. 

Final Autumn

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BY ANNIE FINCH

Maple leaves turn black in the courtyard.

Light drives lower and one bluejay crams

our cold memories out past the sun,

each time your traces come past the shadows

and visit under my looking-glass fingers

that lift and block out the sun.

Come—I’ll trace you one final autumn,

and you can trace your last homecoming

into the snow or the sun.

Annie Finch, "Final Autumn" from Calendars, published by Tupelo Press. Copyright © 2003 by Annie Finch.  Reprinted by permission of the author.

You can listen to the audio reading of the poem here.

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I watch quietly 

as the stilled streets 

kiss their leaves goodby 

and autumn dances

its last waltz with

the twirling wind.

©CV, 2016, Long Island

I am currently working on the design of my Autumnventure Gallery 

so any last minute offerings will be accepted this weekend. 

Today's Poetry Friday Roundup is at Jone MacCulloch's blog site, Check It Out where Jone is announcing her New Year Poetry Post Card Exchange. 

I continue to write alongside Mary Lee Hahn and her community of writers at #haikuforhealing, the site she created for voices to be raised this December.