Everywhere We look We See...October

Autumn seeps through wooded sweeps

Everywhere we look we see

Honeyed hints and russet tints

Teasing nature’s tapestry

Expectation celebrates

Though September shuts its gates

It leaves in its wake, mist-morn

Hillsides steeped with brittle corn

Orchards bent with ruddy flair

Children’s laughter on crisp air

Apple-rosy cheeks to kiss

October is Autumn’s bliss

Pour the cider, pour the tea

Everywhere we look we see

Summer-set, mulled violet

Orange and red and yellow tree

August cinders wink and glow

On a hearth of petal snow

Hearts of wonderment applaud

Glimpses of our glorious God

Lowly bush and lofty limb

Showcase art authored by Him

Raise a song of praiseful zest

October is Autumn’s Best

Look, the brook is leaf-boat shook

Summer’s sapphire sparkle sleeps

Cellars brim with harvest-hymn

Hulls and husks are holy heaps

Heart is wowed with humble joy

Earth is bowed with bloom’s ahoy

Beauty flames, fades to farewell

Wind song strums the sallow fell

Every sugar-tree a torch

Halo dims, strews pumpkin-ed porch

Blushing berm meets stalwart stride  

October is Autumn’s Bride

Everywhere we look we see

Romance threading age to age

October is poetry

Pressed on page of frost-kissed sage

Skyline sketched with stark-etched tusk

Shadows stretch like cats at dusk

Butterfly and lullaby

Flit where flowered fragments lie

 Rain-song, wind-song, leaf song melds

Nature grieves, no leaf withheld

Loom to ether broom, leaves coast

October is Autumn's Boast

© Janet Martin