Poetry Friday: Autumn Acrostics

Here are four autumn acrostics I wrote for Tricia’s Monday Poetry Stretch at The Miss Rumphius Effect. You will find the Poetry Stretch Results here.

AUTUMN ACROSTICS

by

Elaine Magliaro

Animals get ready for winter--slip
Under stones, hide in hollow logs, bury
Themselves in pond bottoms. The
Underlife of leaves bursts forth in a
Myriad of colors and they dazzle like jewels on a
Necklace of trees.




Must fly south
Into the sun…must
Get going…before Mother Nature
Raises her icy hands
And frosts
This world
In white. Follow me
On the wing to a land that does
Not know the chill of winter




Like baby birds
Eager to test their wings
A scarlet flock takes flight in a silent
Valediction to summer.
Earthbound, they
Settle into autumn, curl up from the cold.




Crimson and gold, pumpkin
Orange, lemon yellow, burnt sienna...
Leaves don their autumn finery in
October to celebrate the season.
Restless breezes set them dancing,
Swirling through air like a rainbow of dervishes

At Blue Rose Girls, I have a poem by Judith Harris entitled Gathering Leaves in Grade School and three of my original autumn poems that were previously posted at Wild Rose Reader.

This week’s Poetry Friday Roundup is at Two Writing Teachers.