AUTUMN RETURN
Against the thin autumnal skies
a bell rings from a profiled tower
as boys emerge in haste.
Multi-coloured clothing shed
by naked trees in filigree
is kicked and crunched by black-laced shoes
where brambles threaten red chaffed legs
along the hidden path to home
Opaque streams of drifting smoke
point to bonfires newly lit
where men in caps dig sodden soil
to sounds of stainless steel in clay
beyond the hedge where boys pass by.
With muddied shoes and tousled hair
the unseen boys materialize
on tarmacadamed roads to home.
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A re-work of an earlier write plus a photo of my house mate, Stanley.[
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Comments4
This poem casts a shadow of another time in another clime reading as classical as Thomas Hardy it gives an autumn feel of crisp air and a feeling that I have been there. A fave
Great observation - I'm greatly influenced by TH who is probably my favourite author. When I read his books I forget the plot and get fixated by his masterful use of the language.
Love his books too and the plots are dark.
This poem is well written with good imagery and expresses a thorough point. Nicely done.
Thanks so much for your kind comment.
A beauty and a cutie wrapped in one post! Love it, Michael! Give Stanley a nice pet for me! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
Thanks Tristan - sure will give him a hug - as I type this he is asleep on the back of the chair with his bum on one shoulder and his head on the other snoring in my ear.
A fine write and pic of a friend of Fido's M.
Does Stanley also read poems and bark at anyone conveniently 'forgetting' to mark certain poems 18+? lol. Does he count the (sylla)berles too?
He marks lots of things - mostly posts (the sticky up out of the ground ones not the posts on mps) and trees.
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