Today posting two poems from my autumn poetry challenge– to write something on a theme of bounty that doesn’t mention apples or pumpkins…. The first lovely entries appear below– each simple, evocative poems. Feel free to submit until the snow flies….
SEASONS OF NEPHEWS
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Robert calls me in February:
“Guess what? Surprise! I’m married!”
Russell walks a snowy campus
With the same load his brother carried.
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Russell runs up the steps to see me
Home from school in spring;
Robert tills a muddy field,
Dreaming of growing things.
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Russell writes his stories
Out of the summer sun,
Robert drives an old John Deere,
And leaves when his shift is done.
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Robert gifts me with acorn squash
He planted at summer’s start;
Russell gifts me with language,
A bounty for my heart.
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Laurie Blair
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Visit Laurie at Help My Compass Broke .
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Generous in its fragrance
The smell of hay bears
A cornucopia of fall’s delight
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Miriam Ruff
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Loquaciously Yours 
Thank you for hosting and posting, Jenne. (Great idea!) I’ll be sure to tweet the post.
Both poems are evocative and lovely. In the first, each stanza is a word-picture, the rhyme works very well, and the love infusing the poem is touching. The second so immediately brings back that smell of hay (we had horses when I was growing up); I like the poem for its simplicity and depth at the same time.