A Touch Of Fall
/Cotton on gold with spots of blue
November skies, falls’ signs accrue
Wet leaves glued on every path
Complex designs, beyond man’s math.
Breath of frost in nostril hairs
Gloves are donned, our lightest pairs
Just enough to ease the feel
Of gripping car cold steering wheel.
Coffee and cocoa, a nod of rum
Winter’s march, a distant drum
Hands held out, towards fires’ heat
Suffuses warmth from head to feet.
Rustling sounds from piles of leaves
Hay in fields and corn in sheaves
Songs of birds, in South migration
Their wings display no hesitation.
Scent of smoke from homes nearby
Ponds’ first ice, too thin to try
Grasses turned to yellow straw
Kept company by crows’ sharp caw.
Autumn paints with colors bright
Quickly splashed in days’ short light
Trying to stay glum winters’ grip
As time, the season’s pages flip.
By James Geehring
From: United States
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