Bees are gone, Hands cold, Raking crimson leaves.   #Only8Words #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn

A cold morning walk, Deep in Autumn’s dry forest, Shivering beetle!  🪲   #Haiku #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn

Autumn’s ghost casts its shadow on dry brown crackling leaves. 🍂   #10wordspoet #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn   That’s not my shadow!

Dark eyes wet with sadness, I offer her Autumn roses.    #10wordspoet #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn #Maymont

It’s so cold: the leaves quaked, friend turtle had goosebumps!   #10wordspoet #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn

The wet cold grey Autumn sky: Winter! Winter is nigh!   #10wordspoet #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn #Maymont

Lantern of stone:  Illuminates koi in the cold Autumn pond   #10wordspoet #Poetry #NatureLovers #Maymont

Moved by the wind, they do not hesitate to enter in through the gate, brushing the stone path with soundless footsteps.   #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn #Maymont

On a golden pond, Canadian geese gather, Comets in the sky.   #Haiku #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn #Maymont

Below Autumn’s  water fall: New love bubbling up!   #Only8Words #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn #Maymont

On Thanksgiving Day, We walk in the dry crackling woods, giving thanks for all the stuff we don’t have, and don’t care about getting.   The leaves fall free of charge.   The wild wind costs nothing.   A hawk circles overhead.   This plain life, the only one that ever felt like

Unmoved by society I go into   Autumn’s sanctuary reverently alive.   #10wordspoet #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn #Maymont

I joined the wild wind to whirl and dance through the autumn forest, waking the dead, restoring me to fleeting sanity.   #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn

The pond holds the sky in perfect silence. The sun’s gold spreads  on stoic stones.  Voices of lost lovers echo deep within my bones.   #Poetry #NatureLovers #Autumn

First frost. Mallard ducks  feed  on the half-frozen pond  while we walk  in this cold  dawn  searching  searching  for your light.   #Poetry #NatureLovers #Winter #Maymont

Rice on the gazebo floor, newlyweds must surely be nearby.   #10wordspoet #Poetry #NatureLovers #Maymont

Playing in a sea of ginkgo leaves, sudden joy arises!   #10wordspoet #Poetry #NatureLovers #Maymont

Out here in the Japanese garden, We meditate by the peaceful pond, Out here we cling to the fading colors of autumn.   #Poetry #NatureLovers #Maymont

First snow in early December, harvesting winter medicine.   #Only8words #Poetry #Winter #Elderberry