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This poem will be short, of course, maybe a quick observation, a moment preserved, as in this no-sentence poem by Ezra Pound:

In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Or maybe an apostrophe like H. D.'s "The Pool":

The Pool

Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
What are you—banded one?

Call it Autumn. Call it Fall. Does it Matter?

Either way, it's back again, full of football, pumpkins, falling leaves and memories. Here are are some poems, offered for your autumn enjoyment.

It might as well be spring . . .

or maybe it is, so many love poems keep appearing in the blogs. Love poems are some of the hardest poems to write, or so claimed W. H. Auden. Here are a few classics that have inspired poets and lovers over the years:

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Ralegh
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by e. e. cummings
To the March Wind by Chuck Guilford
Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wild Nights — Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
When You Are Old by W. B. Yeats
Credo by Matthew Roher

A few suggestions: use concrete, specific images to show your feelings; avoid sing-song "roses are red" type rhyming; try to say something fresh and new that gives readers a new insight — or even a laugh.

And check out the following topics:

Poem #6: Write a No-Sentence Poem

Write a poem that is six to sixteen lines long and contains no grammatically complete sentences.

If you want, you can punctuate fragments as complete sentences.

Make your final poem six to sixteen lines long. Consider dividing it into two or more stanzas.

e. e. cummings "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" could be an example, as could Chuck Guilford's "A Perfect Circle."

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Poetry Response Guidelines
-- the no praise/no blame method

As a reader, you may find it hard to speak frankly in the poet's presence about words, images, and ideas charged with personal expression. Yet in doing so, you help the writer see how the poem affects another person, and how it might evolve in a future draft.

A Sense of Form

A poem's form is partly visual: its look on the page. George Herbert's "Easter Wings" is an example of striking visual form, as is e. e. cummings' "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r." But visual form also works in less obvious ways. The lean, spare look of most Emily Dickinson poems complements her terse style, while the long, sweeping lines of Walt Whitman accentuate his bold, expansive message.