Autumn in Normandy is a gorgeous season. Though this photograph (culled from a photo competition in The Republican) is of Autumn in Vermont, the view could just as easily be somewhere near here in a week or two.
This farm in South Woodstock, Vt., is bathed in the colors of fall and serves as the perfect symbol of New England autumn to launch The Republican and MassLive.com’s second annual Fall Photo Contest. The picture was taken by Norman Halpern, of Holyoke. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/photo_contest_presents_joy_of.html
In common with just about everyone in the Northern hemisphere, I have been having clichéd September thoughts, which – as usual – emerge as lines of poetry.
Some random autumnal thoughts
Summer came late
and leaves us early
as though afraid to pamper
in advance of climate change
*
Winter hovers in the wings
and autumn threatens nightly.
Heavy dew and evening chill
belong much later, rightly.
*
Purple sky shades to ultramarine
small miracles of light bathe fields in gold
to match the leaves of autumn trees.
The view is changing by the minute:
far horizons now obscured
as rain sweeps by in curtains.
Lighter now
but gold is gone
surfaces gleam
with moisture.
*
If you don’t like the weather,
wait ten minutes.
you have the miracle of writing poem.Beautiful!
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Your words put me right in that picture…nicely done!
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I like it a lot (:
My Rally Submissions:
http://robinelizabeth58.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/the-rivers-cry/
http://robinelizabeth58.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/burning-eyes/
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Lovely Nature poetry! The colors have been so rainow shaded in the poem.. I do it too! 🙂
Do drop by my work..I am:
http://puplumages.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/the-exorbitantly-priced-smile/
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Thank you Purvi. I love your blog, and shall return to it.
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Wow.. if you don’t like the weather, wait ten minutes.. what a lovely line.. and I enjoyed the verse.. thanks
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
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http://jingleyanqiu.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/thursday-poets-rally-week-30/
welcome to Rally week 30,
a most 3 poems are accepted within 7 days…
Happy Thursday!
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This made me smile–this is just so, so true and I’m watching it right now. Your note at the end is EXACTLY what we say around here. Great job!
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Pleasant feel this read brought…the picture is fantastic too.
Cheers.
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Thank you, Julie. Even though the picture wasn’t truly Norman! If you want to see a really local picture, scroll down to my Craneflies poem! I would love to visit New England or maybe Canada in the Fall, but it’s not likely to happen now.
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I adore the ending. Made me giggle, though here in Bakersfield… we pretty much stay the same. The image, from Holyoke, delights me since my daughter is now in college close to there, at Smith College. Being a Central California girl, she has seen little in the way of seasonal changes. Glad to know her autumnal view will be like this one.
Thank you for bringing a bit of Normandy into my world!
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lovely job,
no worrying about ping back thing…
rest yourself..
I assume you have done your dues…
Thanks for the feedback.
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For me: memories of upstate New York – all the gold and red and brown … lovely, elegant poem and what a fine selection of photo … Love it!
Happy Rally days, Vivian. Poem on …
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Had to visit again, Vivian, after I reread your poem in Jingles post. Last time I didn’t notice the humorous end … very clever and very true. Good!
Here’s mine, by the way, if you care to visit.
http://musingbymoonlight.com/2010/09/23/god-put-us-here-for-this/
Happy Rally days … see you again soon.
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Beautiful, evocative of my years in la Bretagne…except, no fog.
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Happy Rally Wednesday!
I love your work.
BEST!
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love the changing mood,
I can wait for 10 minutes if I dislike it..
thanks form the elegant piece.
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You should have reminded me! Off to fbf now.
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