On Poetry Friday, I post the last of 4 Etheree poems (Two single and two double) I wrote this month.  The other three can be found in recent posts.  Given that it's October 2nd today, I though it was appropriate to post one about autumn.

Fall’s upon us

(Written by John Christian Lewis; all rights reserved)

new

season

arriving

autumn anew

golden-rod carpets

brush of northern breezes

cinnamon apple butter

cadmium colors arising

haystacks dot fields as balers rumble by

crunch crunch crunch over crispy crinkled leaves

sweatered sweethearts cuddle by bonfire’s blaze

sparrows, heron, warblers flocking south

Hay rides, drinking apple cider

pumpkin spice in everything

spattered long-ways sunlight

sun sets sooner now

cornfield mazes

cooler days

favorite

time of

year

Intimate Spaces

Intimate spaces

(Written by John Christian Lewis; all rights reserved)

I

always

wanted to

hold the tender,

fragile parts of you.

Bits hidden in spiny

casings, formed to keep me out.

Oh to reach that intimate space,

where you reside alone and untouched.

Let me love what you deem unsafe to bare

Love

An example of a double etheree

Love

(Written by John Christian Lewis; all rights reserved)

love

whispers

love calls out

calling for hate

this alone it seeks

animosity hides

in dark and hidden places

can love be heard above the din

of war or violent racist speech

love is anti-hate, hate is anti-love

hate is anti-love, love is anti-hate

hate leaves searing marks upon the soul

that only love can quench and heal

hate’s hot garrote strangles hearts

kills all but caustic wrath

regardless the toll

love will not cease

to seek and

vanquish

hate