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MARK V SHELDON
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0 posted 2001-06-26 09:42 PM


Autumn is a time
That brings to mind
Feelings from the past...
A cool wind blows
For these two daring souls
Finding pictures that they know will last...

And there's a feeling in the air --
A sense of adventure --
A distinct zephyr of chimney pine...
With their scarves around their throats
And their hands inside their coats,
Then night's age but a quarter to nine.

And their Topsiders crack the golden leaves below
As the pines
Sway in time
To the autumn wind's flow
There's a halo 'round the moon shining overhead
As the clouds
Cast their shrouds
Upon Heaven's starbed.

Autumn is a time
That brings to mind
Moments of days gone by...
The sun's golden rays
In the pre-twilight phase
Of a day moving closer to night...

And the color of the leaves
That have fallen from the trees
To run freely along the path,
Like the gold in her hair
Draping her back so bare,
Or the tan of her skin from the bath.

An ensemble of toads at the Reservoir
Serenades
The escapades
Of the two, from afar
With the rumble of the ocean, faintly heard to the West
As the two
Picture who
It was that made autumn best...


(Copyright 1989 by: MARK V SHELDON)

"If you think you know it all, you have a lot to learn."

"Everyone can hear;  few can listen."

© Copyright 2001 Mark V Sheldon - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2001-06-26 09:48 PM


isn't Autumn just the very best time of year?! Ummmmm..... it is for me.....

this is wonderful  

MARK V SHELDON
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2 posted 2001-06-26 09:53 PM


My favorite, always, SEA.  The other seasons are trivial in comparison...  Thank you.

-MVS

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"Everyone can hear;  few can listen."

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3 posted 2001-06-26 09:59 PM


Ah...memories of cool nights....(it's 110 here by the way!)...lovely.  
MARK V SHELDON
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4 posted 2001-06-26 10:03 PM


Yucko.  Where's here, Sharon?

-MVS

"If you think you know it all, you have a lot to learn."

"Everyone can hear;  few can listen."

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5 posted 2001-06-26 10:20 PM


My favorite time, too. This sounds like autumn in New Hampshire, which is the ONLY good season here. Its 95 here tomorrow. And 0 in Winter. Ah, take me back to California..
Nice poem, Mark, you are able to inspire many thoughts with your poems.
Sandra

MARK V SHELDON
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6 posted 2001-06-26 10:29 PM


I've always wondered what an eastcoast autumn must be like in person...  it's in the 80's & 90's here too, only to get hotter through October.  That's a high compliment -- to be able to inspire others...  that's part of what this place is all about, right?  Thanks, Sandra.

-MVS

"If you think you know it all, you have a lot to learn."

"Everyone can hear;  few can listen."

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