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Susan Israel's avatar

The Sky Is Falling The Sky Is Falling

Everything hit him at once; mortgage due, wife gone, his employer downsizing, and then the first damn falling autumn leaf.

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Cheryl Snell's avatar

The Yellow Leaf Flutters to Earth

Slowly, as if convinced it was leaving something precious behind, something it would recognize if it ever saw it again.

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John Affleck's avatar

Touchdown

Fall smells like leaves and turned up earth. Football fields. New year, new chances. But see her? Still in love.

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Vicka Kharitonova's avatar

It’s All In the Colors.

Leafing through greens of summer.

Months of love and despair.

Fall healing wrapped in warm yellows.

But no pumpkin spice!

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Karen Walker's avatar

After the adultery of August

Head in my lap, a new red leaf turns summer's page, pages for me as, blazing, I read to him.

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Dave Alcock's avatar

Kingfishers

We still see them - those gem-like blue dots, before the leaves of our sycamores, before we vanish in their shade.

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Marvin Waldman's avatar

As it was falling, fall’s first leaf to fall said, not in anger, but surely disappointed…

You say the summer flew by. You always say that. It didn’t. You just weren’t watching.

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Up in the Morning and Off to School

Leaf: Come Labor Day my chlorophyll, sap of life, ebbs away, everything chills and darkens.

Teacher: Tell me about it.

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Nikki Tate's avatar

Why Didn’t I Stop to Ask?

The last time I saw her, she was crouched down in the park, holding a huge red Maple leaf, crying.

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Alan McDiarmid's avatar

“Take a leaf out of my book.”

Said the oak tree.

“And shut up shop ‘til spring.”

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H.G. Alexandre's avatar

About to fall

Leaves about to fall as notes, a song from our past

Then like black magic, the music played only you.

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Sreemanti Sengupta's avatar

Last leaf

I watched as the cool wind nudged the last orange leaf on my bougainvillea plant. Will it, or won’t it?

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