Beyond Summer

 

Patience greeted with summer's end

A welcome change unfolding its hand

The incoming fall veneers its craft

An entity ending a cycle of sleep

 

Cold air leaks in over the hills

As geese give chase to a distant warmth

Leaves awash with a colorful death

Prepare to make their graceful descent

 

Treetops blasted with puzzling hues

Squarely displayed in a dark-watered pond

The flank of an old barn frosted with vines

The frame of an old car sunken in mud

 

Pumpkins color a shady churchyard

Varied in size like legions of kin

Coated figures inhabit the street side

Heads held down against the gales

 

A tarnished statue rooted in stone

Stands in the shade of molting branches

Whirlwinds fraught with nervous leaves

 Scurry about its humble slab

 

An old man sweeps the library steps

A jogger follows a cloud of breath

Children's banter fills an alley

Noon light dims on an empty schoolyard

 

Darkness grows between the trees

Perception marked by lingering fireflies

Purple clouds so gently smeared

Where jet streams scar a tinted sky

 

Stars begin to reveal their light

As homes reply with glowing windows

People ease their way indoors

Burning the logs that spice the air

 

 Schools and banks now black inside

A full moon paints the sparkling street

Details soft under ebony veil

The canvas cleared for a glimpse of winter

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Rambling Prose]

The imagery you painted in this piece with precise strokes of phenomenal diction - is breathtaking! My mind's eye was enraptured as the gentle flow whisked me (like a leaf) through this wonderful journey of transition.

~simply beautiful~