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Lessons of Autumn

Summaries of schooling
   — lessons upon lessons guiding
Thoughts in class after class…as bells ring…
Volumes to consider about ways of interpreting…
As the world takes Life on a continuous spin
    — round and around — outside and within — 
Orbits, tides, seasons, moods, visions…

Lessons taught that Winter is The Dead or Hibernating;
Spring is Re-birth; Summer is The Growing;
And Autumn?  Well, students were asked to see 
— symbollically, spiritually, scientifically —
That Autumn is the season of Dying, of Leaving.

Autumn, the antithesis of Spring;
Autumn, the harvesting, the taking away 
   from the earth Spring’s born and 
   Summer’s grown.
Autumn is the drying, wilting, wrinkling;
The changing from acting to waiting…
And ending.

But, in Autumn, Mother Nature displays
Some greater lessons using God’s deeper palette:
To layer by layer paint, and year by year present 
How Autumn’s weeks pass on
Gifting the hemispheres with her splendors
In a glorious prelude to turning with life,
Tier upon tier, into a new year.
   
All around, Autumn transforms the landscape
From too monochrome into blended tones 
Of copper…and red…and yellow aside goldened greens
That shiver before the backing blankets 
    of violet horizons;
And often the trees for awhile, may even 
    lean in together to endure
The colder winds and rains pattering.

~ When sweeping Autumn begins,
Leaf by leaf breaks off from branches and twigs…
And, by design created, floats down, 
Each laying on a palm of air, to soften
The fall ~

The living in nature all have their seasons…As we
Too, grow on the many branching pathways of our own,
Hopefully learning the value and beauty 
In the circling of all time’s teaching seasons…
As each and every leaf sways, wafts, flutters, twirls,

Slowly waltzing down to the waiting earth,
To lay there, with such vibrant color,
Over the dust that made us.
Autumn always,
    is time’s heavy curtain, 
Taking its cue to fall…


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(c) sally young eslinger 10/2023
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