A frequently updated post
Fall is my favorite season and inspires me to create more haiku. Autumn brings its magnificent colors and a welcome respite from the summer heat, but more than that, the beauty of a new season, the promise of continued cycles that diminish and replenish, each with their own special purpose. There’s a lovely old standard tune, “Autumn Leaves”, that captures the bittersweet nature of fall and starts like this:
The falling leaves
Drift by my window
The falling leaves
Of red and gold
The rest of the lyrics to this beautiful old tune are included at the end of this post along with a recording by Frank Sinatra, after my three haiku for autumn.
Haiku #1 for Autumn
My favorite aspen
Dons red and gold finery
For nature’s party
Haiku #2 for Autumn
Fall colors call me
Siren song of falling leaves
Magnificent trees
Haiku #3 for Autumn
Autumn, she beckons
With gorgeous affirmation
Of life’s full cycles
Lyrics to “Autumn Leaves” (by Johnny Mercer)
Click here to hear a Frank Sinatra recording – highly recommended!!!
The falling leaves
Drift by my window
The falling leaves
Of red and gold
I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold
Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I’ll hear
Old winter’s song
But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall
Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I’ll hear
Old winter’s song
But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall
2024 Update
Shared with the dVerse Poets Pub on August 26, 2024, in response to the Haibun Monday prompt about changing seasons. Go on over to dVerse to read some fab poems!
2025 Update
This post is getting lots of traffic in the fall of 2025! I’m thinking that’s because autumn leaves and haiku are calming, soothing and soul-restoring in times of chaos. So here’s a new autumn leaves haiku and my photo that inspired it.
Haiku #4 for Autumn
photographing trees
my visual gold-mining
shimmering aspens
©️ 2015, 2024 and 2025, Glover Gardens
Loved this post today…and the song link too 🎶🎶🎶
Wow! What’s not to like. Dad
This is a treasured comment from my Dad, who was my original muse for the blog. It’s so bittersweet to see his affirmation on the first version of this post back in 2015.
A delightful autumn post, Kim, with an echo of Frank Sinatra to crown it. My favourite season too, and I agree about the magnificent colours.
Thank you!
You’re welcome, Kim!
Wow this os such a gorgeous post. I luv that Sinatra song even though we do not experience Fall in our clime. Here in T&T 🇹🇹 its just 2 seasons. Rainy Season and Dry Seasob
much♡love
I hear that nostalgia for “true” seasons!
I can tell fall is your favorite season. Enjoy all the magnificent colors of the season. Beautifully expressed in song and poetry.
Yes, and thank you!
HI Kim, Beautiful poems about autumn. South Africa is going into spring.
This is simply wonderful, Kim. I love that song, too. Your haibun and haiku are perfect!
I’m glad it resonated!
😊
I’m with you, such a glorious season.
And so welcome when it comes, that much-needed break from summer’s swelter.