Mindy Meyers-Halleck

Autumn Poem

Posted on October 9, 2025 Updated on October 9, 2025

I’ve just returned from our annual trek to Cannon Beach, Oregon. While there, I pondered Autumn and all the many spiritual and physical meanings and consequences of the season.

‘Autumn’ was the monthly prompt from our Edmond’s poetry group leader, author, Gerald Bigelow. I wrote several poems sitting on my deck overlooking Haystack Rock. I love to write #poetry while on vacation. It gives my brain a break from novel #writing and the relentless search for an agent.

I’ll share this short one with you, shockingly titled Autumn.

Autumn

Thoughts

Traverse

Beachy memories

Lost to long days

––now shortened

In search of a warm hearth ablaze

To reminisce on sun-splashed

Nostalgias

––lingering

Only to melt against life’s bonfire

Of lost days.

Autumn leaves above my head

Turn

Swirl

Soar

On the wind

And fall like summer memories

To their final feathery bed.