Picture # 4 used as inspiration
At our lakeside cottage where we have pottage at night
When autumn comes and russet mums' blossoms daze
Go to bed early, nothing to dread and wake by sun's light
As the sun sets there's no regrets just joy at summer's end
Fall wears her gown, her trees a crown as sun sends angular rays
All of those glorious colors and arboreous reflections seem to blend
Upon the lake beside our cottage , no place we've tried above it does rise
Our golden lab lying asleep, as nights slowly creep upon days
We peacefully rest, and feel so blessed as sleep softly creeps with surprise
Arboreous green growing inside the fance
contrasting the gray of concrete walls,
scars, caught in childness;
Broken buckets disting the field rounded by
reminiscences in pieces like broken promises
useless like me around the pavement;
Why can't I learn from the forewoman?
lessons write within' our flooded pages;
A bird that was not taught how to swing
cannot high up the sea;
Again, I might be still when the shadow pain
would allow me against the will;
Three ways I can vare from it but none
covered the need like the forewoman will;
Skinny Birds at the sky adding ardour
balancing the paraview
Small as they are.. why can't I have such
weight, for not to burden at the forelady's
packs.
Through the bosky brush, straight lines stand
Lean and sinewy, yet with thickness, strong
Surrounding the curtilage which encases -
Elysium ensconced on a heavenly hill
Lines point upwards, then take many different paths
Each direction, somewhat crooked lines hold ornaments
Like a pendant that hangs on one's neck
Yet an arboreous arrangement for all to see
Thousands of jewels yet none alike
Each holds data, its own memory
Someone knows this; someone accomplished all this
I came out of my torpid daze
Looked out west from his dwelling place
Dozens of tall oak trees endure in majesty
Amazed am I at this creation; the Creator
The Wonder of it all
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