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Paul d'Aubin Oct 2016
Hourra, Hourra; élégie à notre automne chéri

Cher automne, tu es vraiment notre saison chérie,
tu portes la couleur dorée des pêches et des prunes,
avec quelques reflets des raisins de Moissac,
alors que les feuillages roux te font un tapis d’or.
Pendant que dame châtaigne crépite dans les feux.
Tu es la saison chère des amours romantiques,
et des êtres esseulés, chauffant leurs cœurs
à tes lumières tamisées, à tes tons délicats
et à tes vêtures de velours et de soie.
Automne, tu es Femme splendide qui le sait et en joue ;
de celles que dont l’on n’oublie jamais leurs chevelures rousses.
Cher automne, tu flamboies, partout où l’on te trouve,
des châtaigniers de Corse, aux eaux de la Volga.
Ta couleur préférée est le roux mordoré
avec quelques nuances de soleil flamboyant,
sans jamais oublier le marron des châtaignes.
Automne, tu es par excellence la saison d’intellectualité,
où poètes et penseurs trouvent l’inspiration,
propice à leurs créations et suscitant leurs rêves.
Tu nous tends le miroir de nos contemplations
rendant l’esprit aux vraies priorités, qui sont spirituelles.
Ton ciel devient tapisserie avant que le soir tombe,
tant soleil, nuages et lune jouent un ballet de feu.
Il reste en toi assez du bouillonnement de l’été
et des excès grandioses de la saison brûleuse,
peu à peu refroidie, par Eole qui pointe,
aux jours qui rétrécissent comme des larmes
Mais ce n’est qu’en fin d’automne que tes atours déclinent,
avec quelques journées d’une telle beauté,
que notre cœur se serre à devoir te laisser,
peu à peu t’engourdir dans ce linceul d’hiver,
d’où le printemps demain t’éveillera encor,
rêvant déjà de la venue de nouveaux beaux automnes.

Paul Arrighi
like a red leaf
slipped on the street
beautiful and melancholy
apart from you
beautiful and melancholy
doomed to dry up
SG Holter Jul 2015
I visit the old mill by the creek.  
It hasn't ground a grain in a century.
A ghost of wood and steel and history.
How it still stands is a local mystery.

I want to buy that old mill by the creek.
Rebuild it with glass walls facing the waterfall.
Use the water for electricity.
In the summer, when you visit me,

We'll swim in the pond, it'll be my own pool.
Sip beer on the rooftop, be rockstar cool.
In winter, we'll ice skate my frozen backyard
Before fireplace, whisky, snacks and cards.

I'll build you a guestroom on all three floors.
And secret rooms behind hidden doors.
The automn rains will pound at the wall  
And sing with the sound of the waterfall,

And the song will be that of the miller's ghost.
The house might be mine, but he's still the host.
He loves that his workplace has now become home.
For a hundred years, he's been there alone.  

He'll laugh with the kids of my visiting friends.
He'll dance with the women, and when the fun ends
He'll sit on the rooftop with a ghost cup of tea,
Walk by the willows and thank God for he

Who took the mill ruins and rendered them "home";  
A palace by water of wood, glass and stone.
I thinks of these things, when I visit that mill.
And thanks to my dreaming, it's standing there still.
SG Holter Sep 2014
Automn opens her eyes ever so
Slightly; earth toned irises within
The green mirror of a summer
Dozing off, her awakening reflected

In human breath now visible upon  
Chilled evening air, and
Lovers' fingers seeking closer
Shelter within the shared

Pockets of each other.
You ask what the doctor said,
But I have sweeter fish to fry
Than worry; such sensations

As the way your skin is the
Softest I have ever felt against
My own surface of scars and hair,
And how I'm looking forward to

October auburns, bronzes, yellows
And sepias. All in contrast to the
Whites and magnolias of the
Winter that follows their blossom,

And the excuses the coldness
In their wake presents to lean
Closer. Huddle up. Warm hands
Under garments, share blankets

With the least innocent of
Intentions. I love the subzeros.
Frost. Goosebumps receding under
A kiss. And another. And another.
Conar McVicker Jan 2013
Automn
Fall
Everything falling asleep
The ground's covered
Slowly decaying leaves
We pile them up for fun
Feasting starts
To keep spirits high
Creatures are saddened
A natural thing
The season after
Is often full of death
Long cold winters
Halfway through
Celebration
Not the original
Gifts are given
Not the original
Nobody remembers
The way we lived before
Rohida is a beautiful tree
always stay healthy
whether it is winter
or automn spree
It gives rosy flowers
but fruits are poisonous
Neither gives shadow
Nor gives manure
Only used to make furniture
Therefore it is everyone's
target to cut it for sure

Khejdi is not a beautiful tree
but is full of numerous qualities
Leaves used for food of animals
Peeling used for manure and fuels
A lot of crops grow under it
Therefore it is always super hit

All it is a matter of benevolence
which makes a beautiful sense
Beauty and intelligence
are on back foot
If you are useless
for the people a lot.

— The End —