Monday, October 17, 2022

Autumn Aria

 








Overhead and underneath
Autumn spreads wreath over wreath
Wraps the shiver of earth’s eaves
In an ambience of leaves

Where vermilion lamplight flicks
On gazillion woodland wicks
Where the poet cannot snare
The full essence of the flare

For ink cannot catch the sigh
Of Autumn’s Leaf-Lullaby
Or the dance of sun and rain
Across landscape's counterpane

Or the sweeping surge of seas
Hidden by a verge of trees
Or the orchestra that slipped
From a stage that windsong stripped


© Janet Martin





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