Haiku Poems for Fall

 

The Essence of Fall

Crisp blue morning chill

Yields to golden afternoon

Trees wave colored leaves

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Trick or Treat: A Halloween Haiku

Sheet-wearing ghosties

Scamper among skirling leaves

Candy-bags rattling

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Oops: A Thanksgiving Haiku

You silly dudebro

Trying to fry a turkey

Burned down your garage

=====haiku is a Japanese form of short poetry that is comprised of three lines, in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, usually with nature or the natural world as the subject. It is intended to challenge the poet to distill an observation to its essence to create the simplest, purest, and most powerful impression.===

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November

We're deep into fall, now.
Past the first blush of color,
The return to school,
The first game of the season.

Past the tiny costumes
Clattering up my steps
To ring the bell, all excitement.
The candy is gone;
The giant spider has been put away.

Now, leaves once red and gold,
Fluttering like flapping flags on breeze-tossed branches,
Are brown and grey, curled and crunching beneath the scamper of squirrels
Keen to hide the season's treasures before retreating to their winter nests.

Fall has gone from crisp to cold
Bright blue skies, free of summer haze,
Will soon yield to clouds, grey and low
And gravid with calm, silent snow.

The days ever dwindling,
Until the Solstice stops the night's advance
And lets the day begin
The long creep back in. 

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