Autumn Arrival Image Prompt Contest

Submissions Due: September 6th 2024.

Contest Process: There will be two parts to this contest. The first part is judged by our anonymous judges that will select two finalists. The membership will vote for the winner.

Guidelines: No longer than 40 lines, One poem per member

Prize: 10 Dollar Amazon gift certificate, one month Premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology

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AUTUMN'S CUSP

By: Scribbler

Mid October a cool day
with a northern cooling breeze.
All hints of summer gone away.
The few green leaves are just a tease.

Tomorrow will bring the first frost
so this day finds me 'neath the trees
absorbing warmth before its lost
and limbering up titanium knees.

For I'm not what I once was.
Time has seen that I am not,
So I sit on a stump to take a pause
and breathe autumn's scent which I'd forgot.

Then turn my face up to the sky
as cool front winds begin to blow.
I watch the clouds as they race by.
They leave like friends I used to know.

My eyes water from sun's glare
so I drop my head down to my chest
letting my chin settle there
while I count the ways that I am blessed.

I'm blessed with our cabin in the trees
I'm blessed with seeing one more fall.
I'm blessed with grandchildren to tease.
I'm blessed with being here at all.

I watch a squirrel climb to its nest
for now the sun is getting low
so ere' it reaches ridge's crest
I arise then turn and go.