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    When Leaves Fall
    When Leaves Fall
    When Leaves Fall
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    When Leaves Fall

    By Elise Skidmore

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    I've read POEMS FROM THE EDGE OF SPRING, and can highly recommend it! The sort of book you can pick up for a moment's respite or inspiration--or just sit and read from piece to piece, always entertained/comforted/made to think. Lovely book! -- Diana Gabaldon

    Poignant and lyrical, every sentence is a gem. Each poem brought back personal memories of family members and past experiences, each one re-lived through Ms. Skidmore's precise pen. I thoroughly enjoyed this selection of poems, and look forward to reading more from Elise Skidmore! -- Karen White

    ... I really enjoyed the beautiful poetry in Poems from the Edge of Spring. I will pick it up and read it again...and again. -- Cheryl Secomb

    Elise Skidmore gives us a glimpse of her inner most feelings and she does it well. Each of us can find a bit of our own soul inside her elegant words. Definitely worth the read! -- Susan Michalski

    When Leaves Fall is the eagerly anticipated second book from acclaimed poet Elise Skidmore whose poetry reaches into the heart and brings us together in the seasons of life that we all share.

    When Leaves Fall

    When leaves fall,
    still shouting life with
    their last rasping breath,

    as brilliant reds, yellows and umber
    crunch beneath our feet,
    I breathe deep,

    inhaling sunshine, wood smoke
    and memories of laughing
    with the leaves
    and you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeart Ally Books, LLC
    Release dateJun 3, 2016
    ISBN9780985374044
    When Leaves Fall
    Author

    Elise Skidmore

    Elise Skidmore is a native New Yorker, who has been writing poetry since she was a child. In 1994, when her husband and several of her friends were trying to get her interested in email and switching from a typewriter to a computer, she stumbled upon Compuserve’s Literary forum (Today it’s called the Books and Writers Community). There she met a bunch of wonderful people, including her favorite author, Diana Gabaldon, who helped broaden her horizons and delve into fiction writing as well as poetry. She eventually joined the staff, spending nearly 10 years as the section leader of the Writing Exercises and in Compuserve’s Poetry Forum. In 2004, when Compuserve opened to the web, she and a friend started a private writers’ forum called SectionSixx, which nurtured writers for more than 10 years.Elise lives on Long Island with her husband of 40+ years and feels blessed to have had the best parents, husband, and children a woman could ask for. The strong bonds of family are often the subject of her writing, but there aren’t many topics she’s afraid to tackle, including stories of vampires, devil possession, WWII POW camps, and gunslingers in the old west.Her hobbies include reading, photography, travel, and making people smile.

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      Book preview

      When Leaves Fall - Elise Skidmore

      When Leaves Fall

      by

      Elise Skidmore

      heartlogo-small-bw-logo.jpg

      Heart Ally Books

      Camano Island, Washington

      When Leaves Fall

      Copyright © 2012 by Elise Skidmore

      Published by:

      Heart Ally Books

      26910 92nd Ave NW C5-406, Stanwood, WA 98292

      Published on Camano Island, WA, USA

      www.heartallybooks.com

      ISBN-13: (epub) 978-0-9853740-4-4

      Table of Contents

      When Leaves Fall

      The River of Time

      Today

      Whaddaya Want?

      Squirrel Dizain

      Ever Your Child

      You Gotta Believe

      My Father Was Still A Boy

      Seasonal Perspective

      Blizzard

      Lost In The Rain

      Retirement Is Not An Option

      Whenever I Hear

      Object of Envy

      Rejection

      If You Loved Me

      At the Zoo

      My Words

      Say Sorry

      Friday the Thirteenth

      Holiday Excess

      More Than

      Even Now

      Not Fade Away

      Something Shiny

      Oak Tree

      Living in the Shade

      Unexpected

      Surprise Pork Chops

      Sunset Blush

      Another Saturday Night

      The Best Ever

      Let's Dance

      Treasure Chest

      Sort of Strange

      Desperation Shouts

      Insomnia

      Doomsday

      Graveyard Shift

      Monster Mash

      Broken

      The Night Visitor

      Once Upon A Dream

      Rest Assured

      Alice

      Sunrise at 10,000ft

      Breaking Day

      Of Poets and Poetry

      Winter Crepuscule

      The Trouble Is This

      A Mistake Has Been Made

      Blonde

      Island Fantasy

      I Am Not Addicted

      Through a Microscope

      100% Sure

      Mix Up

      Beautiful Words

      Dear Norman

      Tsunami Haiku

      Stranger Kindness

      Miracles happen

      So Close

      Acknowledgements

      Also By Elise Skidmore

      To my family, past and present,

      for their love and inspiration.

      &

      To Rosemary,

      for always listening and being able

      to make me laugh when I need it most.

      When Leaves Fall

      When leaves fall,

      still shouting life with

      their last rasping breath,

      as brilliant reds, yellows and umber

      crunch beneath our feet,

      I breathe deep,

      inhaling sunshine, wood smoke

      and memories of laughing

      with the leaves

      and you.

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