A Color Extravaganza

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Quintain/English
An English Quintain poem is (five line stanzas with a rhyming pattern of a,b,a,b,b ), there is no specific meter or length of line.

Autumn hosts a carnival of color celebrating the bounty of summer. But Jack Frost, Autumn's gentlemen caller, oft dances to a different drummer endorsing winter as the newcomer. A phantasmagorical season Autumn's a color extravaganza. And that above all else is the reason I feel it's a bonafide bonanza of beauty, like a poetic stanza. Trees turn scarlet and cerise overnight as the fairies set canopies afire. And though fledgling songbirds have taken flight there is still so much beauty to admire that Autumn never ceases to inspire. The air gets chilly, each breath crisp and clean, and underfoot, leaves make a crackling sound. Crimsons and golds replacing Summer's green form mosaics, as they get blown around by brisk breezes and scattered on the ground. Orange pumpkins ripen in October adding anticipation to the air. And yet, slumping scarecrows seem so sober witnessing jack-o'-lanterns craved to scare off evil, in a Halloween nightmare. (Quintain/ English) 10-09-2020