Enjoy the leaves when Autumn comes for then the world becomes
A landscape-painter's dream, where all the colors are extreme.
Where a pretty pigment scheme provides such vivid outcomes.
The day at once succumbs unto the beauty of the scene.
When adding up the sums, another aspect to include,
Bright sunlight, it would seem, adds its own vibrancy to all,
And houses in between complete the urban attitude.
The pulse of Nature hums within the Season we call Fall.
The squirrels may soon intrude, as they scurry for their nuts.
A soul may hear the geese call, flying over, heading south.
All creatures, big and small, prepare their Winter huts.
You'll see some storing food -- a chipmunk, acorns in its mouth.
So, if you're asking, "What's the finest Season to attest?"
There are no IFs, or ANDs, or BUTs, it's Fall that seems the best.
(Poem repeated with rhymes bolded)
Enjoy the leaves when Autumn comes for then the world becomes
A landscape-painter's dream, where all the colors are extreme.
Where a pretty pigment scheme provides such vivid outcomes.
The day at once succumbs unto the beauty of the scene.
When adding up the sums, another aspect to include,
Bright sunlight, it would seem, adds its own vibrancy to all,
And houses in between complete the urban attitude.
The pulse of Nature hums within the Season we call Fall.
The squirrels may soon intrude, as they scurry for their nuts.
A soul may hear the geese call, flying over, heading south.
All creatures, big and small, prepare their Winter huts.
You'll see some storing food -- a chipmunk, acorns in its mouth.
So, if you're asking, "What's the finest Season to attest?"
There are no IFs, or ANDs, or BUTs, it's Fall that seems the best.
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Author Notes
It's a bit early here for the leaves to change, but it won't be much longer. Last year's colors where spectacular. I took this picture along Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota, last fall. I wanted to capture both the essence of this picture in it's city setting, as well as the nature of the season.
The capitalization in this poem is intentional by the author.
This poem is a Dual Sonnet
A Dual Sonnet is very similar to the Bey Morlin Sonnet that I published earlier, in that both contain in-line rhyming, The Bey Morlin requires the second syllable to match the end-line rhyme. The Dual Sonnet requires a rhyme scheme in the center of the Hexametered lines of the stanza, but not neccessarily matching the end-line rhyme scheme. Infact, there are two intertwining but seperate rhyme schemes within the poem. The two schemes are as follows:
Stanza 1
a - a
b - b
b - a
a - b
Stanza 2
a - c
b - d
b - c
a -d
Stanza 3
c - e
d -f
c -e
d - f
Couplet
e - g
e - g
Since this may be hard to detect in the poem, I repeated it with the rhymes bolded so that you can see the rhyme scheme in detail better.
This picture was taken by the author himself on October 16, 2014
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