Autumn (A Sonnet)

Thought I would share a poem I wrote back in high school which I subsequently added music to and turned into a song. However, I have never been completely pleased with any recorded version of it and have intentions still of re-recording it to my liking.

Here is the poem, titled "Autumn":


Autumn is a time of long, chilly days
With grey skies and colored leaves all around
It's a time when we change our living ways
With all of the leaves flying to the ground

The squirrels are starting to store their food
And all of the trees are becoming bare
The weather leaves us all in a sad mood
And raking of leaves we all have to share

The harvests are ripe and ready to reap
They will be the final crops of the year
The piles of leaves down the street are quite steep
And the frightful sound of the wind we hear

Autumn's memories we'll keep when it's gone
Until the time of the new autumn's dawn.


The poem is a sonnet. It was an assignment for an English class. I actually wrote my first poem in 6th grade. I was in an 8th grade level reading class and there was a poetry contest. My contribution was titled "The Moon" and I actually won 2nd place if my memory serves me well. And for the life of me I cannot find a copy of this poem anywhere. I tend to save everything, yet I cannot find this one treasure. I remember that my entry was a very simple and unpretentious one. I wrote the words on a sheet of paper and drew and colored in a yellow moon in the background. That was it. And I won. That was my first confirmation that writing was one of the talents I was blessed with.

This poem, Autumn, I happened to also use in a Literature class in college. We had an assignment where we needed to present something to the entire class. So I read this poem aloud and then played my then-most recent recording of it to the class. Received pretty good feedback as well, as I did presented something wholly unique to the class.

I've never uploaded this song to YouTube so I can't add a link here. But maybe once I get around to it I will add a link to some audio so you can have an idea what it sounds like.