Autumn's Resounding Applause/a-h-hs

Dashing twixt Beauty and Duty can induce quite a marathon!

The Solution? Try to find ways to blend them into one Awe-filled Autumn Hymn

It's been a week of working with Autumn's Beauty-Bounty

Apples, pumpkins and tomatoes

for the preserving end...

Zucchini, peppers, red onion, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage

for the instant gratification of YUMMY!!

Beauty begs us to be quiet 

Duty draws us by Must’s laws 

From the multicolored riot 

Of a thousand autumn-awes/ah-hs 

Wonder washes away worry 

Worship bids us slow our feet 

In a world so full of hurry 

Where awe and hunger compete 

Eyes witness the work of nature 

Faith bids us behold far more 

Than the elemental stature 

Of a season’s repertoire 

Leaf-song dwindles as wind swindles 

Notes from woodland’s waning blaze 

Yet something in leaf-loss kindles 

Autumn’s awesome hymns of praise 

Beauty beckons to distraction 

Duty reconciles must’s laws 

With sweet, soulful satisfaction 

Autumn's resounding applause/a-h-hs

© Janet Martin 

Now it's off to more of the same...

Being awed by God's Beauty-bounty ballad!