'Autumn' - by Alexander Posey

Nov 15, 2021

The Interculturalist: A Periodical of SIETAR USA will from time to time publish poems written by members or published in other venues. This poem was found in Poem-a-Day and seemed especially appropriate for this November 2021 issue. The author was a Muskogee Creek poet, journalist, and humorist.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on November 6, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

Autumn
by Alexander Posey

In the dreamy silence
Of the afternoon, a
Cloth of gold is woven
Over wood and prairie;
And the jaybird, newly
Fallen from the heaven,
Scatters cordial greetings,
And the air is filled with
Scarlet leaves, that, dropping,
Rise again, as ever,
With a useless sigh for
Rest—and it is Autumn.