Irish Autumn

Posted On March 16, 2022

Author’s Note: I drafted this poem many years ago for my wife. My handwritten notes simply bear the date “1990”, so I must have written it shortly after Robin and I married. For reasons unbeknownst to me at this point in life, it sat all these years gathering dust in my archives, until a faded paper copy of it fell out of an old album just recently, while Robin and I were cleaning out and preparing our “Momma & Grandpa” grandchildren’s nursery. I must have actually given it to her at some point. It sat in that album all these long years. A long-forgotten poem to my wife. A little serendipitous “Luck O’ the Irish”.

I took that as a hint.

I thought;

“It’s about time I dusted my Irish Autumn’s poem off.”

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IRISH AUTUMN

Laughter From the Hearthstones

Fire’s Warming Heart

Leprechauns in Shamrock Fields

Frolic Autumn’s Skirts

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Sunlight Shining from the Sky

October’s Cool Crisp Blue

Shaded by a Cloudy Grey

Reflecting Green-Gold Dewy Hue

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Chuckled Winds Whisp Through the Forest

Brilliant Splash of Harvest Glee

Mother Nature’s Quilted Carpet

Clover Queen’s Bright Tapestry

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Rainbow’s Promised Gold Beguiles

Lucky Hunted Hart Doth Steal

Wonders from a Northern Isle

Irish Lass in Shepherd’s Fields

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Until Our Trails Cross Again:

ADKO