Fully Autumn
Fully Autumn
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A fine, clear creek
Trickling water
Flows long on by,
As Earth presents
Such a festive
Winding valley’s show.
Sun’s rays sigh.
Sprinkling lights shift nigh.
So sooner do feelings rise
To gift
Such a landscape with its due awe;
To sing glee
As Nature calls
Her choirs to harmonize,
Accompanied by
The wistful poems of
Mounds of carmine mums,
Tipping their petite
Petals within each
Wending breeze;
To scatter away worries
By tracing the last flights
Of silver-spotted butterflies,
Aiming skyward through
This autumn’s afternoon.
Transforming trees stand
Splendid in a flutter-falling
Of their leaves — a gracing
By colors
On the fingertips of
The wind — with their lounging sway
— this way then to the other—
As created to be
Life’s November cotillion —
For a dance, and
Then a sylvan space to
Sleep before snow
Covers over all…
Still, unburied, with a promise
Of resilience.
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(c)sally young Eslinger
10/28/2
Thanks be to God
Copyright © Sally Eslinger | Year Posted 2021
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