Autumn Is...

Autumn is coral on cobblestone morn

Acres of infantry posing as corn

Rosy cheeked apple with rosy cheeked child

Autumn is paint on a palette run wild

Bins filled with harvest and hearts filled with praise

Home and hearth kindled with banter and blaze

Autumn is full-moon on frost-feathered leaf

Complex alignment of comfort and grief

Autumn is pumpkin-pie-apple-crisp love

Faith’s aftermath slipping from summer’s glove

Autumn is moody and autumn is keen

Autumn is brandy poured over lime-green

Lovers find lanes lined with leafy repose

Dreams and death mingle like snow on a rose

Autumn is echoes of childhood on dusk

Wood-smoke entwined with wind-song blue and brusque

Autumn is farewell leaning on Time’s gate

Russet rebellion succumbing to fate

Autumn is sweater-warm hugs, cup of tea

Autumn is wishing you were here with me…

© Janet Martin

Today was everything autumn;

Pink sunrise,

Sun and cloud slide-show highlighting deep blue, gold and russet

Little boys with rosy cheeks

Munching rosy apples,

Hot tea,

Warmer sweaters,

Squash and corn chowder for supper with fresh apple crisp,

Family lingering in the kitchen by candlelight, (wishing for fire in the wood-stove)

Walking through leaves, watching farmers harvesting corn

And over it all a brooding wind tugging towels from the line, 

nipping our noses and stoking the 'missing you' in our hearts,

All the while reminding us ‘who’ is just around the corner!