"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Monday, October 26, 2020

R.E. Slater - Autumnal Awakening





Autumnal Awakening
by R.E. Slater


As I awake the changeling day
I hear but filling silence falling
In nearby stand of autumn wood
Preparing quietly its winter slumber
In Netherland dreams of renewal.

I am reminded these present trials
Which die awhile before awakening
Of hopes falling like rotting leaves
Lumped upon a browning grounds
Useful the sleeping insect and larvae.

Woods shorn their mighty colours
Awaiting its new day of rebirth
Sowing upon the cooling earth
Reminders its resting hallows
Merely grasped for rake or fire.

So is borne upon an autumn day
Troubled good for struggling hearts
Sowing warmths preparing slumber
To resurrect on a distant weather
There to grace a trodding path.

R.E. Slater
October 25, 2020

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