I am trying my pen at poetry these days and the blog, The Miss. Rumphius Effect, hosts a Poetry Stretch every week. This week the topic is poems about your favourite month. I have posted my poem below as well as on the host site, where you'll find some other fine musings on the months of the year. (seems that autumn is a popular time of year!)
Fall back
into leafy fire.
Amber leaves against perfect saphire skies,
the patchwork forests
keep the darkening warm.
Bubbling over
joy
with just a dash of melancholy.
Kicking up the colours
floating
to the earth
makes grieving summer easy.
Giving thanks
for cozy back to school sweaters.
A love affair with wool begins.
The giddy anticiaption
of fear
on the dark, laughing streets.
Earthy scents give way to
visceral remembering
of rich soil
and harvests
not collected in a cart.
Crisp and content
is the fall
into
October.
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