Sunset in a Violent Sky, copyrighted, 2007, janekohut-bartels, watercolor
Kim is hosting dversepoets tonight and the theme is Autumn. Check out the wonderful poetry that will be on the site. dversepoets.com.
AUTUMN DUSK
Stuttering winds blow across
Clouds tinted by the failing sun.
Brittle air softens,
Now a faded blue–
Shade of an old man’s watery eyes.
A late flock of Sandhill cranes lift off,
Pale bodies blending in the
Twilight with legs
Flowing dark streamers,
Their celestial cries fall to
Earth–
A harsh, chiding rain.
The trees in the valley
Are massed in darkness
As waning light leaches
Color from nature,
Creeps from field to hillock
And all below prepares for the
Rising of the Corn Moon.
Even frogs in the pond
Listen between croaks
For the intention of the night.
Jane Kohut-Bartels
Copyrighted, 2017
Tags: Autumn Dusk, dversepoets.com, poetry
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October 17, 2017 at 11:24 pm
I love the description and imagery in this. The last three lines are especially autumnal.
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October 18, 2017 at 12:09 am
“the intention of the night” – Love that!
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October 18, 2017 at 12:33 am
I like the dark branches and ground in your watercolor against the other subdued colors. I also like the description of the waning light leaching color and the frogs trying to hear the intention of the night.
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October 18, 2017 at 1:13 am
I love the scene you painted a:s And all below prepares for the
Rising of the Corn Moon.
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October 18, 2017 at 3:59 am
Gorgeous imagery in this, Jane…the sandhill cranes……I love the listening for the “intention of the night”…….
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October 18, 2017 at 4:06 am
Oh I do love your description of the dusk, the way the dusk leaches colour worked especially well with me.
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October 18, 2017 at 7:39 am
Stunning watercolour and poem, Jane! I think most of us are agreed that dusk in autumn is especially beautiful, and you’ve shown it with:
‘Brittle air softens,
Now a faded blue–
Shade of an old man’s watery eyes’;
‘The trees in the valley
Are massed in darkness
As waning light leaches
Color…’
and
‘Even frogs in the pond
Listen between croaks
For the intention of the night’.
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October 18, 2017 at 3:03 pm
Thanks, Kim. And early poem (early for me is in the last 10 years…LOL) but one of my favorite. Thanks for reading and your comment. Over later. Having computer problems today.
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October 18, 2017 at 3:04 pm
Thanks, Bjorn. One of my fav. poems. And early one. I peaked early. LOL!
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October 18, 2017 at 3:04 pm
Hi Sherry! Me, too! LOL~ thanks sweetie.
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October 18, 2017 at 3:05 pm
Thanks, Grace, I am so far behind reading but am catching up. Computer problems again and just fixed a few weeks ago. Ugh.
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October 18, 2017 at 3:06 pm
Yeah those frogs, Frank. LOL! And early poem but one of my favorites. Thanks, Frank.
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October 18, 2017 at 3:06 pm
Yup, me, too. Thanks for reading.
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October 18, 2017 at 3:07 pm
Thanks, Toni. An early poem but probably my favorite. Thanks for reading and your comment.
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October 18, 2017 at 3:13 pm
Hope you resolve the computer problems!
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October 18, 2017 at 3:23 pm
I pressed F11 in the middle of the booting upand it seems to work. Damn, Kim I just paid a lot of $$$ to have this fixed about 2 weeks ago. And here we come again. New hard drive, etc.
Thanks, Sweetie.
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October 20, 2017 at 9:20 am
The painting is at atmospheric as the words.
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October 20, 2017 at 10:19 am
Thank you, Jane. I like that painting, too.
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October 20, 2017 at 11:27 am
🙂
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