Motley colours of the forest top
Ablaze in daylight’s waning glow
As disgruntled leaves begin to drop
Onto cold bare ground way below
Busy squirrels along frost-covered path
Scurry for food as winter looms
Golden leaves in gentle winds waft
Over sad plants with forgotten blooms
Frost-covered branches beseech the sky
For sunshine, just a little longer
Perhaps this is the reason why
At times rises an Indian summer
A contest entry
- Short Poems Of Nature by misticmoonlite.
475 points, ended October 21, 2008, 13 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Ah, Lee, you have captured the season.
Our Indian Summer comes and goes. But the
82 degrees of last week, banished as unusual.
Strange contrast, near bare branches on some trees, a full head of leafy hair just next door!!
Well done, Lee, well done!!!
Aesthete
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Hi Aesthete
Thank you. Do you mean that there can be more than one Indian summer per autumn?
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Congrats, Pengyou, Lee !!!
Yam seng ! Kudos to your another HM. 
na-na-na-na-na ...Hurray to Pengyou, Lee !!!
summer51
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Hi summer
Thank you. I am still looking for the blue one.
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Perhaps it depends upon where one lives.
Sort of sporadic here, changeable day by day.
Still pretty nice for mid-October.
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Hi Aesthete
Wow! Beautiful picture. The sunlight, the plants and the flowers are still blooming! Is it now late autumn? What about my plants with forgotten blooms? -
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Yesterday, Jake (the puppy) and family came over to help
clear the patio, bring inside, under lights, all the hearty ones
that will keep giving all winter---rosemary, mint, etc.
The shame, lots of new flowering buds on the cherry tomatoes,
but just too much stuff to deal with. Had to retire them.
The hardy ones live on outside, with a cover over them on low, low temp nights,
below freezing. Hoping they will make it to Thanksgiving!
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Indian summer in autumn? What does it looks like, pengyou Lee?
But this one is really good.
Good luck to another deserving trophy for you.
summer51
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Hi summer
Indian summer is a time of calm high temperature which sometimes occur in late autumn (and when the Indians come out to play ) How come you don't know? Is there no autumn in the Phillipines? Then you should come to Malaysia. 
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You have snow there also, pengyou Lee? I like to see snow... Okay I will visit your place next year...When is the Indian summer time in your place?
We have only 2 seasons...wet and dry... but some addition of typhoons, earthquakes too... can you consider that special seasons, pengyou?
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Hi summer
Yes, we have the 4 seasons at a park in Shan Alam. Inside the building, it is spring, summer, autumn and winter all at the same time but in different sections. Indian summer is anytime you step out from the autumn room
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oh yes
this would be an Indian summer around here, nice and well written poem , thank you for this entry, good luck
Linda
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Hi MoonShadow
Thank you for the award. -
Hi MoonShadow
Thank you.
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