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