Tuesday, September 25, 2012

"Autumn" - A Poem to Welcome Fall

Written by J.P. 2012

Season

Angled sun and axial tilt
Days get shorter, flora wilt
Summer dies beneath grey skies, and slowly dark encroaches

Harvest

Shoots, roots, vines and branches
Barns, farms, fields, and ranches
Gather fast, for nothing lasts, a bitter breeze approaches

Decay

Blackened mold to bleach bone white
Nimbostratus eats sunlight
The twilight lust of mist and rust betrayed upon the metal

Flight

Flapping, feathered, flying “V’s”
Vector 1-8-0 degrees
They honk, “Beware!” The frigid air, it stings just like the nettle

Frost

Icy fingers slip and slither
Choke and crack and nip and wither
Atoms slow as fractals grow, the tawny leaves all glisten

Silence

Placid ether, without wave
And muffled shores of moss deprave
The air of sound and all around the dying only listen

Spirit
Superstition, Halloween
Candy corn and jelly bean
Children shiver at the sight of shadows made by candlelight

Night

Day surrenders in September
Evening rules until December
The black horizon cloaks the light and ushers in the reign of night

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