Haiku · Autumn
One Red Maple Leaf
one red maple leaf
rides the river out of town —
travel light, it says
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Quick facts
- Poem
- One Red Maple Leaf
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 3 lines
- Form
- Haiku, Short Poems
- Themes
- Autumn, Nature, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 3 lines · one 3-line stanza
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
- Line length
- Mostly 5-syllable lines.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalOne Red Maple Leaf, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 3d541ce4905e1d8a…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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