Autumn’s Sacred Fire: A Quadrille on Endings and Beginnings

W3 Prompt #177: Weaโ€™ve Written Weekly
Posted on September 17, 2025

Lisaโ€™s prompt guidelines
Fall always feels like a season of both endings and beginnings, doesnโ€™t it? For this week, letโ€™s explore those transitions in a Quadrilleโ€”a 44-word poem, a form first shared with us by the wonderful dโ€™Verse Poets Pub.

Your poem can lean into endings, beginnings, or the mix of the two. And if youโ€™d like an extra spark, hereโ€™s a thought from Friedrich Nietzsche:

I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Leaves surrender their green dreams,
whispering ancient secrets to October wind.
I gather fragments of summer's laughter,
tucking them deep beneath my ribs
where memory keeps its sacred fire.
In this golden dying,
I discover how beautifully
we can bloom
even as we fall.
Autumn's Sacred Fire: A Quadrille on Endings and Beginnings

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20 responses to “Autumn’s Sacred Fire: A Quadrille on Endings and Beginnings”

  1. yvettemcalleiro Avatar

    What a beautiful poem!

    Yvette M Calleiro :-)
    http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com

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  2. Violet Lentz Avatar

    For some reason I was unable to comment on your actual blog- but can do so here in Reader. I think the line that struck me most was -In this golden dying- brilliant line especially fitting for those of us of a certain age to whom death is becoming a very real journey we are not far from taking.

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  3. lisaapaul Avatar

    Congratulations! You are the PoW winner. Your poem captures the beginning and ending we feel in nature and in ourselves in September so perfectly.

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  4. ben Alexander Avatar

    Mazal tov!

    Lisa has selected you as our PoW for this week, Jaideep <3

    I’ve sent you an email.

    ~David

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    1. PebbleGalaxy Avatar

      Thanks, David. Got it. ๐Ÿค—

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      1. ben Alexander Avatar

        ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

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  5. ben Alexander Avatar

    Jaideep, this feels both tender and powerful. I really like the line โ€œmemory keeps its sacred fireโ€โ€”it seems to capture how endings still carry warmth and light forward into whatโ€™s next.

    ~David

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    1. PebbleGalaxy Avatar

      Thank you, David. ๐Ÿค—

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  6. brazannemuse Avatar

    What a wonderful poem Jaideep, I felt an interweaving journey of mind, body and soul in rhythm with nature โ€ฆ

    ๐Ÿ’žSuzanne

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