Autumnal severance
season’s flashing tonality
present past present future
the shin hurt of childhood quarrel
aging fruit and jarring tumbler
last year’s fashion muffler, tomorrow’s cinder
moth-eaten “do my bones look big in this?” sweater
witch’s brew of prescription medicines
growing old is time’s obscurer
a flash of autumnal red
like twinkling stars
fade and fall
For Sammi's Day 6 ("witches brew") and Day 7 ("Do my bones look big in this?")
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April or September
There’s a chill in the air
Colors catch my eye
Slipping free of winter
Chase the roses
From summer’s embers
Green carpets laid
Accent red furnishings
Into wooded streams
For Cee's Midweek Madness Challenge: September Autumn or Spring
Nothing communicates the fullness of “autumn joy” like a fat, well-formed pumpkin waiting to be admired.
Swallow it up, ladies and gents, in pies, in meditations, in orange fury of sunshiny glow!
How grateful I am for pumpkins on this beautiful fall day! Thank you, Lord God of heaven and earth, for all things bright and beautiful!
Change and decay in all around I see.
Henry Francis Lyte (1847)
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
Fallen leaves, sudden colors surround our steps
this season of the encroaching frost, where breath
shivers surfeit with ghosts, phantasms of shade and shape
lingering on the outskirts of our gaze, entrapped
to swirl in gossamer guise of follies unguessed
flesh and blood whose course ran verdure green
but now, as the dry veined leaves, pose beleaguered
papery skinned revenants awaiting All Hallows’ Eve
as if deserving no more than our own fading grins.
note: Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem “The Revenant” should haunt every evocation of revenants. Check out this translation of the poem at Sublime Terror.
Lisa hosts Dverse's "Poetics 427: Mussenden’s Temple" Write a poem (in any form) using the word "folly." Check out all the responses at Mr. Linky.
Undeterred, she ate them, sacrificing herself. (#sixwordstory)
For Cee's FOTD Shweta's Six Word Story Prompt (write a story using only six words, including "free")
This Jolly Beggar 