Ocean-Front Property Or Something Like It...

This past week left me somewhat fatigued 

so I took a Monday-afternoon sabbatical...sort of.

To 'feel' an autumn day!

I had not yet taken the time this month to read the October chapter in the book

The Shape of a Year. Below is a peek at why this book is now in my top ten favs...

There's something comforting in the counsel of a golden, olden tree!

An autumn day can make one feel as wealthy as can be

A little like home-owners of ocean-front property

With cause for celebration for what creation achieves

Where earth is like a shoreline washed with waves of wind-tossed leaves

An autumn day can make us feel like colour connoisseurs

Although, we are all always awestruck autumn amateurs

The heart can savour flavours that evade the poet’s script

And it can sense an intense Silence, smoking-ember dipped

An autumn day can make one feel free and forever young

It tugs us from to-do lists to catch salt-breeze on our tongue

Before it is too late to seize its opportunity

Pretending we are owners of ocean-front property

An autumn day can make one feel unworthy of its ways

How sacred seems the canvas whereon Season spills its trays

The brush that paints its pictures for each one of us will cease

But not before we are all part of mercy’s masterpiece

An autumn day can make one feel undaunted by its spawn

Each moment like a leaf, one of so many, here then gone

Until the afternoon is drawn across a deep blue sea

That swallows all but echoes of ocean-front property

© Janet Martin

'why ocean-front property?" queried hubby...
'because the wind through the leaves in the trees and grass sounds like
waves washing across a shore,' I replied 😊