Cadence of Color

In the chartreuse lawn, the music of rustling leaves I hear, singing the song ‘summer is gone’, I listen the footsteps of autumn clear. The screen of summer dust drifts away, satin sky radiates aquamarine allure. The cloud clumps turn white from grey, sail shapeless across the serene azure. Lemon leaves absorb autumn colors fast, painted tangerine and saffron before they fall. The cadence of color on them won’t last, it would disappear at winter’s call. Amethyst grass on lavender meadow wears pearly crown of radiant dew. In crimson splay of watermelon sun they glow, as the horizon hoists a dainty day new. As the sky soaks the lilac sunset splinters, the shimmer of coral twilight I feel flow. I hold it for my days of dismal winter to get the warmth of autumn afterglow. ______________ April 25, 2023 For A Brian Strand Premiere No 1211 Contest