Autumn &mdash; The Poet Sky https://thepoetsky.com/tag:Autumn Poetry for people who could use a little kindness Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:52:05 +0000 https://i.snap.as/XtbW2kLM.png Autumn &mdash; The Poet Sky https://thepoetsky.com/tag:Autumn Embrace the Strange https://thepoetsky.com/embrace-the-strange?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Among the changing leaves The pumpkins, the corn, the scarecrows Something different came along something we didn’t understand !--more-- They frightened us, these new things They were bizarre, weird, creepy To cope with this, we made a label We called them “monsters” In our fear of the strange We couldn’t see the obvious That what we thought were monsters were just people who were different So embrace the strange Because they’re not monsters They’re just different And different doesn’t have to be scary #Poetry #AcceptingOthers #Autumn #Kindness (C) 2024-2026 Sky Starlight CC BY-NC-SA div id="cusdis"/]]> Among the changing leaves The pumpkins, the corn, the scarecrows Something different came along something we didn’t understand They frightened us, these new things They were bizarre, weird, creepy To cope with this, we made a label We called them “monsters”

In our fear of the strange We couldn’t see the obvious That what we thought were monsters were just people who were different

So embrace the strange Because they’re not monsters They’re just different And different doesn’t have to be scary

#Poetry #AcceptingOthers #Autumn #Kindness

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