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10 October 2023

Autumn Poems

This week, we started by sharing our least favourite thing about autumn - from slugs, to changeable weather!

Next, we got inspired by poems which celebrate autumn: Plums by Gillian Clarke, Postscript by Seamus Heaney, and Song for Autumn by Mary Oliver. We discussed how the poems create an atmosphere with the language, and which poem was our favourite, and why.

Liberty and Leo both wrote their own gorgeous autumn poems...see below!

An ode to the golden light –
That pulses inside a lamp shade,
That pools over the windowsill,
Leaking through the kitchen as a puddle of hot honey.
The light so aglow, your fingers itch to warm themselves by it,
So sweet, your tongue pleads to feel it melt,
So thick, you ask it to sit in your palm, so you can squeeze it, so it can dissolve through your skin, into your veins, and warm the very core of you.
So that you can last the winter.

By Liberty

 


You could walk along the riverside,
A mother duck paddling against the current
and her chicks right behind.

 You could wander through a park,
As you stride to get out of the rain under the trees,
wet leaves would squelch beneath your feet.

 You could walk through town,
Glance at your phone and slip on a manhole cover,
drop it into a 3 inch deep puddle.

 You could sit at home waiting out a storm,
On the sofa while you hope for the best,
no tea or coffee (there was none left).

 And yet as you watch the ducks;
the squirrels in the park;
the pigeons under empty bus shelters;
and the rats on the street by your house.

 As you tread on twigs and leaves soaked in rain and rainbow puddles mixed with leaking oil in the middle of the road…

 …so grey…

 …so alone…

…you see that it won't stay forever…

 …nothing does.

By Leo

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