Lovely Miss Autumn

Lovely Miss Autumn,

A year has passed since I first slept with you.

In an afternoon park I’d lay me down

On virgin grounds beyond rough avenues

And all we did’s to see the ocean view.

Lovely Miss Autumn,

Recall we lived in so silent a town

And we ignored it like imperfections.

Yet by the wind which moments march around,

Colors crown the gown—heart–dissolving ground.

Indeed, Miss Autumn;

Lovely Miss Autumn;

Your ever-growing beauty

Raced Sun’s growing jealousy.

As your rich soil the leaves clothed,

‘ven Beauty itself was moved.

Indeed, Miss Autumn;

Lovely Miss Autumn;

‘twas your grand aspiration

To blanket me your festoon

That I’m a part of you

‘til heaven lost all its blue.

Oh Fall, little Fall,

You never gave up on your leaves.

You kept on breaking Beauty’s laws

Thinking that, from all, you would gain

Were mortals’ awe and confidence.

Oh Fall, little Fall,

I thought you ne’er gave up on me.

Your great pulchritude’s now a loss

And not once did I find again

The warm grounds of love so intense.

Then Winter you were.

Beauty preserved with coldness,

Mortals you did lure.

Pavements here and there,

No more was love so sacred.

Then Spring and Summer

Worms and dandelions crept.

So how-now, o lovely Miss Autumn,

I can no longer climb your beauty’s heights:

A poet could just do so much to love.