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Fall Productions

As our days are getting shorter and our time is about to be spent more indoors, I trust this will be a productive time for all of us writers.

I hope this beautiful poem by John Keats, TO AUTUMN (1820) will inspire:


Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,


    Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;


Conspiring with him how to load and bless


    With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;


To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,


    And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;


        To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells


    With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,


And still more, later flowers for the bees,


Until they think warm days will never cease,


        For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.



Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?


    Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find


Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,


    Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;


Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,


    Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook


        Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:


And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep


    Steady thy laden head across a brook;


    Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,


        Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.



Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?


    Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—


While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,


    And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;


Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn


    Among the river sallows, borne aloft


        Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;


And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;


    Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft


    The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;


        And gathering swallows twitter in the skies






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