Fall Splendor Rhyme Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin ~ September 7, 2023
There's a crispness billowing in the wind today Sending russet leaves swirling to the ground. So many are falling and sadly being swept away Soon Winter's chill will arrive, and snow will abound. I watch them fly like slight sparrows on the wing at the deep-rooted feet of majestic oaks and elms. No longer to their branches can they safely cling. How pitiful the thought of them dying overwhelms. Farewell to the ornamental clothing you wore in Fall. So long to your crimson and golden windswept tresses. You danced to songs of bamboo flutes at Autumn's ball, wearing tangerine and sage green wrinkled dresses. I'll look for you when Springtime bestows new birth. As tiny buds you will appear, from descendants born, adorning giant oaks and elms throughout Mother Earth. No longer for your vanishment shall I weep and mourn.
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