November Appears

November came whooshing in, in torrential down-pours and 90k/hr winds!

Writer's Digest PAD; Day 1, For today’s prompt, write an appearing poem.

After the harvest is gathered

After the tree sheds its tear

After its leaf-song is scattered

Over a landscape dull; drear

November appears

After sweet dog-days are squandered

In lemonade afternoons

And after the poet has wandered

Over its sun-shadow tunes…

After the twilight is hastened

Early toward stilly-deep

After the kissing of children

And stories and prayers ere they sleep

After the Margarets and Johnnys

All have out-grown last year’s shoes

And after the bee has its honey

And asters have crooned farewell blues

…after the spilling of roses

Follows the path of its peers

While ‘neath our feet a door closes

Over a graveyard of years

November appears

© Janet Martin