Who Doesn't Love Fall?!

Who doesn't love fall colors? asks Linda, here.

It suddenly primed my heartstrings with what waits in October, so I'm just passing it on;-)

 We still have three days of September 2016 left to make memorable its existence.
Let's do it with purpose!

Who can resist the undoing of earth?

Nature unravels its offspring of birth

Gardens grow weary yet heave-ho becomes

A rainbow-halo; squash, pumpkins and mums

Who is immune to the blue-bluster breeze?

Teasing and tugging red whispers from trees

Sun-dappled apple-sweet orchards are bliss

We are all lovers when love is like this

Who can say no to fall’s sumptuous fare?

Full-color frontiers and frost-flavored air

Harvest-hulled hillsides, paint palettes so vast

That no earth-artist is fit for the task

Who can disdain what no hand can prevent?

After the laughter of summer is spent

After the flower is stripped of its bell

Color climaxes in woodland and dell

Who in this season of farewell will sing?

Death shrouds the globe in robes fit for a king

Landscapes surrender while splendor runs rife

Dusk deepens early, the wind is a scythe

© Janet Martin