Autumn Leaves at Twilight: Selected Poems 1995-2007

By Dr. Allan Mohl

Dr. Mohl's poems are based on various observations, feelings and life experiences. His poems are reflective of his interest in music, science, politics, human behavior, and modern day.

This book of selected poems reflects a certain power of words on various topics. The poems are not particu

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lime Press LLC
• Release date: Sep 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781953584397

Dr. Allan Mohl

Dr. Mohl is a licensed clinical social worker who has a Ph. D in health and human services. He has an office in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Dr. Mohl is a poet, musician and a psychotherapist who has written hundred of poems, many of which have appeared in various anthologies and on the internet under Poetry.com. Dr. Mohl is a member of poetry nation and the Hudson River Writers Center located in Westchester, New York. In 2009, Dr. Mohl was inducted into the Westchester County Senior Citizen Hall of Fame, in 2017 through 2018, he was a recipient of the Albert Nelson Marcus Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Mohl is married and lives with his wife in Ossining, New York. He has three adult children and six grandchildren.

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Acknowledgement

I wish to give special thanks to Renée Gaines for her help in editing and typing my poems. Without her assistance, Autumn Leaves at Twilight could not have evolved.

Table of Contents

Both Predator and Prey

Looking for Meaning

Let’s Save the Gorillas!

Life Without End

The Christmas Disconnect

The Elephants are Dying

Endings

Every man Waiting For Salvation

Deja Vue

The Polar Bears Are Drowning

Some Thought on St Petersburg, Russia

To Ask Only Questions

The Omen

Woody Guthrie

Fragments of a Lost Culture

Torture

WAR IS HELL!

Et Tu Brutus

Dylan

New Age Follies

Silent Hills

New Orleans - 2005

The Search for Intelligent Design

Then and Now

Darfur

A Family Moment

The Infinite Cycle

Welcome to the New Millennium

A Moment in Therapy

Calling an 800 Number

Tsunami

A Suicide at Ground Zero

The Image is the Message

The Play of the Week

Death of Innocence

Meditation in the Summer of 2004

Antiseptic War

The Need to Sacrifice

Florida in July

Loss of Mattie Stepanek

While Munching on Peanuts

Preemptive Madness

A Visit With The Dalai Lama

Memory Loss

Creative Blockage

When the Wall Came Down

Little League Practice

The Crooner

Surrounded by Ghosts

Observing a Moment of Love

The Million Dollar Smile

From Another Era!

The Death of the Hippie Male

Sanitizing War

The War Lovers

Similar to Cracked Stained Glass Windows

America Was Born in Violence

Taking The Kafka Tour

The Cruise

Writer’s Block

A Painting By Picasso

Bigfoot is in Town!

A Distant Sound

September 11, 2001: The Aftermath

Count Down to the Eleventh Hour

Photographs

A Time To Be Alive

As a Bird in Flight

Sharing a Mud Pie

Meeting at the Palm Diner

The Last Act

Looking for Shangri-La!

A Brief Sermon

Four Elderly Couples Sitting Around A Table

A Lion at the Temple Mount

The Earth From Afar

Earthquake in Gujarat

I Dreamed I saw John Lennon

Where Are We Going?

To Remain in the Ruins

Tribute to A Friend

Christmas in the South Bronx: 1965

The Portrait

Ancient Footprints

The Disappointed Child In A Large Crowd

Marilyn

Remembrance Of A Prison Riot

Toward the End of Her Life

To Smell the Roses

A New Version of Brave New World

An Island of Inner Peace

There’s Something About Jazz

Despair

Shattered Dreams

A gorilla in a Cage

Living in a Goldfish Bowl

Awareness

A Synthesis of Music and Poetry at the Apollo

The Fantasy

Singing Folk Songs in Grand Central Station

A Visit to the Berkshires

Survival Skills and Dinosaurs

My 50 Minutes of Fame

The Lamentation of a Neurotic

Opening Doors With Two-Pound Keys

The Company One Keeps

Hugh Hefner, The Playboy King!

Adagio and the Armageddon Call

Life Force on the Grand Concourse

A Rehearsal with Pablo Casals

Birth and Death, A Never Ending Process

The Need To Take Revenge

Beware the Black Hole

A Place called Hell

A Tribute To Bocelli

Both Predator and Prey

Early man was both predator and prey

to stronger and faster species

of the African plain.

But through evolution

he evolved to modern man

who has been on top of the food chain.

Modern man is king of the hill.

With his big brain. he is no longer part of

mammalian or reptilian road kill.

But, despite his big brain,

he has yet to conquer his predilection

toward war and genocide.

One may wonder

if he is on the road

towards suicide.

Modern man with his big brain

and advanced technology

remains in the

Neolithic caves of his ancestors

where he continues to fight

the tribal wars of us against them.

Looking for Meaning

We look for meaning

Behind every rock,

Behind every tree,

Behind every blade of grass.

I have a friend who was given a kidney.

It was a perfect match

And the hospital staff who served him

All had the same first name

Of people he knew-

Many of whom had expired.

It makes one wonder if

Coincidence is somehow connected

To a cosmological intelligence

Beyond our puny brains.

Perhaps there is another dimension

Which mysteriously communicates with us

To obtain our attention.

Or, perhaps, there is an angel

On each human shoulder

That reveals itself

When the cold breath of death

Seems rather colder

As determination and courage

Makes one bolder.

Let’s Save the Gorillas!

It struck me as rather odd

that during the Rwanda genocide

some scientists expressed

concern about the possible destruction

of the silver-backed gorillas,

gentle creatures who,

unlike their human cousins,

do not make war upon their own,

are vegetarians who,

unlike their human cousins,

do not kill their own,

some of whom are barely grown.

Life Without End

Let us suppose that you could not die

despite your age

you would see your loved ones

come and go.

You would see mountain ranges

disappear and grow.

Eventually you would