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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Five Senses Smorgasbord or Autumn Accolades



These days earth's Smorgasbord groans with Autumn's abundancy
appealing to all the senses but especially taste and see...


Season where halos overhead...


float leaf by leaf...


to lawn and street...


And so, we muster up excuses fine reason to put indoor chores on pause...




Because we know how soon this season drifts away like milkweed gauze...



Season where halos overhead float leaf by leaf to lawn and street
Where hazy, lazy days turn red and gold and crisp and apple-sweet
Where woodland beauty turns our heads and steals the autumn-lover’s heart
Where nature’s loom weaves lustrous threads that only God’s touch can impart

Season of flower-frond farewells as petal bells, frost-kissed, are stilled
Of fields where harvest homage swells as bins and barns and jars are filled
Of oh, so silent aftermath as hymn of limb and field are doffed
Of foot-fall vacant garden path, save for the frames where echoes waft

Season of epicurean thrills, seasoned with cinnamon and cloves
Where nature is a fount that spills to nutmeg-ginger-tinted groves
That dwindles fall’s pigment from heights like a slow-ebbing color-sea
And rekindles our appetites for books and cozy nooks and tea

Season of comfy sweaters tugged from shelves and boxes long forgot
Where we feel warm and wooly hugged and dance a jig right on the spot
Where thanksgiving is not about the meal of turkey, dressing, pie
But daily living out life’s zeal of gratefulness in rife reply

Season of lingering outdoors because we sense the numbered days
Before the chill of winter roars through corridors where sumacs blaze
And so, we muster up excuses fine reason to put indoor chores on pause
Because we know how soon this season drifts away like milkweed gauze

Season of acorn, butternut squash, pumpkin popularity
Of hearty chowders, succotash, of simmer-steep-knead gaiety
While the wind whinnies like a horse tossing the tress of tree and reed
While nature takes its steady course of bud to bloom to scattered seed

Season where longing mingles with gentle contentment, bittersweet
Where tingle of excitement and lament for what is spent compete
Season of simple wishes like savouring autumn’s melody
And delighting in the delicious smorgasbord of Taste and See


© Janet Martin

And rekindles our appetites for books and cozy nooks...


... and tea











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