POETRY FRIDAY: Autumn Acrostics

AUTUMN ACROSTICS
by
Elaine Magliaro

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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At Wild Rose Reader, I have a review of Alice Schertle’s book of mask poems, Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes.

I have two new poems this week over at Political Verses— GOING ROGUE: A Poem about Sarah Palin & Her Book and Onward to a Teacher's Life: A Poem Written in the Style of Peggy Noonan.

Kelly Herold has the Poetry Friday Roundup at Crossover this week.