Autumn Late-day Rain-rhapsody

 October's exit is wild and windy!!!

Hold on to your hat!

Wrote this poem while cooking supper as I watched eventide roll/blow in!

Cornstalk-candelabras etched 

on backdrops of grey crepe

Maple-leaf mosaics pressed 

into fall’s grand escape

Rush of silver runnels hiss 

beneath wheels homeward bound

Wind wears holes through woodland’s 

whispers falling to the ground

Autumn's petal-pandemonium

 holds strange allure

Suddenly we want to join them 

on their farewell tour

Early dark is seeping in like 

high-tide, splash by splash

Freeways sparkle like 

a gold and ruby rhinestone sash

Simple supper smells like 

something special (and it is)

Happiness simmers in pots 

and pan-fried promises

Home, however humble feels 

imperfectly complete

Meek prayers burst with pity 

for the pauper on the street

Oft, how oft our eyes are drawn 

to what is fading fast

Like first light that births each dawn 

begins to shape the past

Like the melody that drips 

from seas without a shore

Like the sting of salty stars 

that slip and are no more

© Janet Martin

(I could not post a what's-for-supper blog last Thursday due to helping at a funeral all day)

 This Thursday-what's-for-supper post is one of those non-recipe meals...

brown your beef, add your pick of veggies
(tonight's veggies, green peppers, parsley, garlic, red and white onion)
cook till veggies are almost tender then add tomato-sauce. (I use the one I linked to)
Heat till bubbly then serve on steamed thinly sliced cabbage instead of spaghetti! yummy.