Autumn's Rainy Goodnight Serenade

 'Simple and quite ordinary but sometimes utterly stunning.' 

from Brenda @ It's a Beautiful Life

The above comment from today's post at Brenda's blog

 aroused a wild desire to draw from the simple and quite ordinary evening, something

(okay, maybe this isn't utterly stunning) 

but something to remember it by...

the beauty of simple things~

The harmony of supper-hour traffic homeward bound through autumn rain evokes a sweet and sentimental tug where gleaming decoupage of leaves, like lamplight on the ground enchants workaday weariness with something like a hug

The lowering of lullabies as dusk begins to fold autumnal red and gold into umbral, blue-gray manteau

Seems to reflect idyllic scenes from simpler days of old as daylight slips and drips into frameworks of long ago

Raindrop tap-dancers dapple driveway, street and promenade, punctuating farewell with silver exclamation tears while we delight in Autumn’s Rainy Goodnight Serenade until the world above and all around us disappears

© Janet Martin

or this...

The harmony of supper-hour traffic homeward bound 

through autumn rain evokes a sweet and sentimental tug 

where gleaming decoupage of leaves, like lamplight on the ground 

enchants workaday weariness with something like a hug

The lowering of lullabies as dusk begins to fold 

autumnal red and gold into umbral, blue-gray manteau

Seems to reflect idyllic scenes from simpler days of old 

as daylight slips and drips into frameworks of long ago

Raindrop tap-dancers dapple driveway, street and promenade,

punctuating farewell with silver exclamation tears

while we delight in Autumn’s Rainy Goodnight Serenade 

until the world above and all around us disappears

© Janet Martin