In October

In the field corn harvest dwindles brittle whispers, row by row

In the garden silence kindles marigold-ember's brave glow

In the gaudy, tranquil woodland, treetop-tapers flare and dim

In expanding canning cellars, bins, boxes and jar-shelves brim

In the heart a bumbling, humbling, ecstatic Thanksgiving Hymn

In the orchard apple-orbs gleam, luring raptured touch-and-taste

Urging ladder-laden pickers to heave-ho with holy haste

Where fruit-dappled topiaries flaunt  sweet-taunting red and gold

Where chill winds tweak cheeks with cherries and turn tender fingers cold

Where happiness is more merry than one heart can dearly hold

In the kitchen pots, bowls, baskets, laugh with blessing-overflow

Filled with final favors rescued from forecasts of frost or snow 

In the air aromas mingle; nutmeg, ginger, cumin, cloves

Wafting, like color-glints captured from fall-flavored bosc and groves

Cinnamon-caramel-tipped/dipped foliage, pumpkin and squash treasure-troves

In the morning mist and frost kissed vistas of hill, rill and vale

Gleam like amber cider poured from heaven to earth's silver grail

In dusk’s blue-blush, stark-dark dying a soulful dirge seems to sound

For autumn days flying, lying, leaf-shaped on the listless ground

For the star-blind dreamer sighing for fortunes, ever unfound

In October we walk slower down the leaf-embellished street

Scuffling through the fallen bowers, like lamplight beneath our feet

In October we take cover under sparser canopies

Everybody is a lover of October's wooing trees

In October pain and pleasure runs us through like wind-tossed seas 

© Janet Martin

The 'snooze-button update' below is yesterday's news

 because this was supposed to be yesterday's post

but yesterday ran out of hours before it was up.

Because yesterday was an extra-early-start with an extra-late end

 I allowed myself an extra-hour of sleep this morning😊

hitting snooze to my heart's content😂

Hitting-snooze-button accountability- 

I forgot to post my snooze-button accountability yesterday; I hit snooze😔

so last night I decided maybe if set my alarm clock for 6:15 instead of 5:45

 I would be more apt to take my wake-up call/jolt a little more seriously, 

so I did that, and you know what?!!

I was wide awake before the alarm-clock could shock me from slumber-land

so-o-o, up I did'st get!

No snooze-button today😂