I opened my eyes
and saw the colors of autumn
I have always loved the season of fall
Red, orange, yellow
Crackling leaves beneath your feet
I wish I could walk through this path forever
Never knowing where to go
But allowing myself to follow through
Autumn is like the breath of life
Quiet in its stillness
Subtle in its power
Touching in its spirit
About the Author
Joanne Crisner is a Journalism graduate from the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD). She had previously worked as a writer for a Public Relations firm in Makati but is now working as a Technical Analyst while doing freelance writing in her spare time.
Though she studied Journalism, Joanne is more passionate about creative writing, mainly doing personal essays, poems, and short stories on the essence and beautiful complexities of life.
**Lovely emotive poem**
When you start the poem with ‘I opened my eyes’, it makes me feel as if the rest of the year is spent in muted colour, where the world is quiet and you are anonymous.
However when autumn arrives, it illuminates and changes the world by bringing colour, and new perspective. Making you an infinite part of a distinctive world, where you can now see the shades of the world, against what is hidden the rest of the year.
And deep down you wish that all days and seasons and in turn life where like this…alive!
My interpretation of what your poem means to me.
Beautiful!
FortuanteM
Hi FortuanteM!
Thank you for your beautiful, thoughtful and touching insight.
I truly truly appreciate your interpretation and I do, in fact, wish that all the years are spent so alive, so colorful and so moving.
Even though we do not actually experience autumn here, I could feel it in my bones and in my heart.
All the best to you.
Thank you and looking forward to many more of your poems to start the day with!
All the best!
FortunateM