{"id":3223,"date":"2019-10-18T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2019-10-18T13:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:49:04","slug":"oct-18-a-monster-noreaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/10\/18\/oct-18-a-monster-noreaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 18 – a monster nor’easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, October 18 – – \u00a0Our Nor\u2019easter shook the earth but spared the autumn leaves<\/p>\n

The early days of this week, a wind storm hammered New England with 60 mile per hour winds; \u00a0many people have lost power, and many trees have lost their vertical grace and lie strewn across \u00a0yards and roads. \u00a0 One friend, while the winds shrieked and we shivered, prepared for yet another storm loss. \u201cThe colors have just lately turned their beauty our way and now these winds will probably strip the trees prematurely bare.\u201d \u00a0 Autumn is like that, \u00a0memories of delicate, breath-taking beauty from Octobers past, whet our appetites. \u00a0 Some years we are too busy with commitments to pause and take in fleeting and winsome beauty.<\/p>\n

It would be a shame, I thought during morning prayer today, if all our generous work allowed autumn to slip by us. \u00a0Wherever you live, in Motown where the colors are breaking open these days, or Colorado, or Sweden, or Dudley, Massachusetts –\u00a0pause and listen 3 times today. \u00a0Want to?<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

p.s. The weekend might make a great time to bump those listening pauses up to 4 or 5.\u00a0 Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post \u2013 \u201cAutumn\u2019s russet colors age . . .\u201d<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In honor of the dogwood in our West Philly yard.
\n{This poem emerged one fall day during my U Penn grad school year c. 1974}<\/p>\n

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Autumn\u2019s russet colors
\nAge without solemnity
\nEarthy and simple, they linger
\nLinger,<\/p>\n

Not for grandeur
\nNor from fear of the dust they will become<\/p>\n

Their affection for this place
\nThese ripening moments
\nEven me the beholder
\nSlows the pace of changing.<\/p>\n

Let me be won by this warmth
\nTo slow my chosen pace
\nTo ripen affectionately.<\/p>\n

jstsj<\/p>\n

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