Autumn

By Regina Alberty

Autumn is a book of poems that take me back in a number of ways. It is a mixture of seasonal events, past experiences, and also of aging while achieving maturity and insight into lifes turns and changes. I hope you enjoy some of these poems and that they bring to mind memories that you found enriching or perplexing in your own life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543424973

Regina Alberty

Regina Alberty is a poet by avocation and a lawyer by profession. She is a longtime resident of the City of New York. Her poetry speaks of her daily experiences in a constantly changing urban environment. The author acknowledges that the City has been preeminent in the development of her appreciation for those moments when the only thing to do is to record an emotional response to an event that transcends familiarity.

Book preview

A Field Full of Colorful Balloons

A field full of colorful balloons

Floats up with the early morning sun

As a backdrop. They bob up and down,

Bumping each other, as the breeze

Blowing out to sea disperses them.

My eyes follow their gentle dance

As they ascend and spread.

They look like confetti sprinkled over

The light blue sky. Someone must be

Commemorating a memorable event

Going out of her way to say,

I remember, I care, I will not forget.

My Leaves Fall

My leaves fall to the ground as they turn yellow,

Or red-orange, purple, and then brown.

They pile at my feet resembling quilts

Both picturesque and cushy.

I am autumn.

My azure skies go on forever till they turn

Into slate gray mirrors playing at

Blocking the sun with puffed-up clouds

Bent on pouring down rain all day long.

I am autumn.

The temperature goes down when I arrive.

You must forget your summer shorts,

Forget T-shirts, forget the beach

It is time to be cozy with me indoors.

I am autumn.

I help you to prepare for winter storms.

I make you long for the arrival of spring,

I titillate you with sizzling summer dreams

And as I you recollect those seasons,

I make you want to stay with me because

I am autumn.

I am of all the seasons the best loved

The most colorful, the one full of

Nostalgic expectation for what will