Do you have a favorite fall poem. I liked this one.

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"Autumn Psalm of Fearlessness"

I am surrounded by a peaceful ebbing
as creation bows to the mystry of life;
all that grows and lives must give up life,
yet it does not really die.

As plants surrender their life
bending, brown and wrinkled,
and yellow leaves of trees
float to my lawn like parachutes,
they do so in a sea of serenity.

I hear no fearful cries from creation,
no screams of terror,
as death daily devours
once-green and growing life.

Peaceful and calm is autumn's swan song,
for she understands
that hidden in winter's death-grip
is spring's openhanded
full-brimmed breath of life.

It is not a death rattle that sounds
over fields and backyard fences;
rather I hear a lullaby
softly swaying upon the autumn wind.

Sleep in peace, all that lives'
slumber secure, all that is dying
for in every fall there is the rise
whose sister's name is spring.

I do not know the author!

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