Burn-out

PAD Challenge day 9: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Burn (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. 

The bloom of bud has fizzled

So too, the loom of leaf

The turf of earth is drizzled

With Mother Nature’s grief

The color-world of summer

Then autumn flares and fades

November’s coat is somber

In gray-bronze-umber shades

The dreamer scans new reasons

The garden-guru sleeps

The troubadour of seasons

Finds ink in fallow sweeps

The sky runs out of yellow

Before the day is night

The wind, a forlorn fellow

Preparing for a fight

How still the wooded bower

How hollow is the knell

Where the spire of flower

Has tolled its final bell

© Janet Martin