Word Garden Word List--Autumn

 

Hello my darlings, all arrayed in red and gold! If you're like me, then this week's prompt will be right up your alley. I love Autumn! And so, our source this time is the Autumn section of The Four Seasons, a pocket poets collection that is part of the Everyman's Library. 

This section includes work by such marvelous poets as Robert Frost, Walter de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Amy Lowell. Here is Lowell's poem "Autumn":

All day I have watched the purple vine leaves

Fall into the water.

And now in the moonlight they still fall,

But each leaf is fringed with silver. 

Now a poem with the same title by Walter de la Mare:

There is a wind where the rose was;

Cold rain where sweet grass was;

   And clouds like sheep

   Stream o'er the steep

Grey skies where the lark was.

Nought gold where your hair was;

Nought warm where your hand was;

   But phantom, forlorn,

   Beneath the thorn,

Your ghost where your face was.

Sad winds where your voice was;

Tears, tears where my heart was;

   And ever with me,

   Child, ever with me,

Silence where hope was.

It occurs to me, dear poet friends, that the prompts I find around tend to be topical. Personally, I favor the traditional major themes of poetry: love, mortality, and nature. Surely there is no better time to contemplate these than now, as autumn begins. 

What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new original poem of our own. (Your poem need not be about Autumn at all, but you'll get a nod of approval from your humble prompt mistress if it is!) Then just link up, visit others, and then spend some time out of doors, savoring the change of the seasons. 

And now, your List:

enchanting

ferry

fluttering

forgotten

grackles

mixed

phantom

pheasant

poetry

poppies

quiet

remembers

scatters

scent

smoke

vine

walnut

wasp

web

yellow