Poem: Autumn Mist

[alee_grrl]

My firm does a newsletter 3 times a year and I have been supplying a poem for said newsletter for a couple of years now. I've used most of the ones I had written that were not too deeply personal or too sad, so I am finding myself having to craft new ones. This isn't a bad thing, sometimes I need the prompt to sit down and write poetry. Our fall newsletter theme is renewal, and I have been inspired by the beauty of changing leaves against fog on my way into work several times this week. So I sat down and wrote this. It's another etheree, as I find that form to be really inspiring and easy to work with and it fits this sort of piece so well.

Autumn Mist

Fog
hushes
the forest,
softens the world.
Leaves glow red, orange, gold--
beacons in the muzzled
grey. Breathe in quiet stillness;
exhale the busy mind's anxious
worries. Enjoy crisp leaves underfoot;
woodsmoke tinted air. Rest brings renewal.

Comments

[amejisuto]

That's beautiful! Really well done! I like it!

[alee_grrl]

Thank you!

[amejisuto]

You're welcome, love!

[sulien]

That is truly lovely, thank you for sharing it here. Fall is my favorite time of year and I always love watching fog or low cloud cover drifting through the trees, it's one of my favorite things. :)

[alee_grrl]

So much the same! Fog over the mountains and trees is just so pretty. Always makes me think of the Misty Mountains.

[jpegghost]

Beautiful!

[alee_grrl]

Thank you!

[sperrywink]

Oh, that is lovely! What is an etheree?

[alee_grrl]

Thank you!

An etheree is a specific poetic form where you write a poem composed of ten lines and each line has a set number of syllables. Usually, you start with one syllable and add one to each line as you go, but you can reverse it and start with the ten-syllable line and subtract one syllable from each line until you reach the final syllable. It's a lot of fun to work with. You can find some others that I've done under the etheree tag used on this post.

Here are some additional resources on the form:

Shadow Poetry's page on Etherees
The History and Explanation of the Etheree Style