April 27, 2023 · 1:07 pm
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Come The Autumn Rains – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

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“Autumn wins you best by its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.” Robert Browning

Come The Autumn Rains

Long days of weary heat
have baked us like 
kiln-fired earthenware,
the ground is dry, parched,
the spade creates shards,
powdery dust touches me in
ways I cannot speak,
come the autumn rains
the ground will surrender softly,
leaves will sleep into soil
stirring seeds of life,
and I will awaken.


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11 responses to “Come The Autumn Rains – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon”

  2. equipsblog
    April 27, 2023 at 3:19 pm

    Very lovely Paul. That will be us in about 6 months, in the Northern Hemisphere.

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  4. Liz Gauffreau
    April 27, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    I love how this poem evokes your relationship with the land.

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  5. lynn__
    April 27, 2023 at 10:04 pm

    Love this one, Paul, especially the soft surrender of the dry ground to autumn rains. We need some spring rains here!

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  8. lync56
    May 30, 2023 at 2:27 pm

    And I will go to sleep until spring awakens me😄

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