Time for bugs to find a way inside
Opens the door of cool November
Grass in repose decides to sleep
Low suns cannot help warm
Leaves of Maple, Birch, and Elm
Turn golden, strawberry, orange
Photographers snap the passion
Compositions of earth’s season
Its change through tempered lens
Cautious as DiVinci painted lips
His knowing lips onto Mona Lisa
Setting tender do-si-do shutters
Prospecting deep into prairies
Exploring quiet neighborhoods
People unaware behind windows
As clicks capture a slow silence
And the beauty that surrounds
~ Dan Pohl
Dan Pohl instructs English composition at Hutchinson Community College and lives in Moundridge, Kansas. He has two poetry books in print: Autochthonous: Found in Place by Woodley Memorial Press, 2014 and Anarchy and Pancakes by Spartan Press, 2018. He contributed to, and co-edited, anthologies: 365 Days (2016) and 365 Days Volume 2 (2018) anthologies from the 365 Poems in 365 Days Facebook poets’ page.
November editor, Ronda Miller, is State President of the Kansas Authors Club (2018 – 2019). Her three books of poetry include Going Home: Poems from My Life, MoonStain (Meadowlark-Books, 2015) and WaterSigns (Meadowlark-Books, 2017). Miller lives in Lawrence but returns to wander The Arikaree Breaks of Cheyenne county every chance she gets. Kansas Authors Club.
Comments on: "November Poems: Photoists Walk Autumn — Dan Pohl" (1)
Dan—I love your poetry and seeing your smiling face in the picture makes me love it even more. “Slow silence”–what a wonderful way to describe this time of year.