So Much Bountifully More Than Ho-Hum

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. - Thoreau

under golden ingots weighing down from heaven

an autumn breeze waltzes 'cross the dancefloor of my face

caressing what's left of my ego

"it's okay" it whispers

"everything will be alright"

i know not from whence it comes

even less about to where it goes

what secrets does it hold

how is it simultaneously meek and bold

secrets are secrets even in disquiet

reminding me that whirlwinds never go on a diet

off in the distance i hear the percussion of angels keeping the beat as they drum

come what will come

yet another blessed day

slow to speak despite plenty to say

so much bountifully more than ho-hum

Author's Note

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.” - Thoreau

Reviews

[Dave Brown]

I sense this paying homage to the spirit of autumn with all its golden colors
No!!
Well ennyhoo, this is one of 'our' most colorful Autumns, with it being drier than usual we are impressively inundated with colored leaves as the deciduoui offer a colorful goodbye until Spring doth cometh againth
Ain't life grandith

[Pete]

here in new england, we've had one of the wettest summers on record - the trees have had much to drink and thus are holding onto their leaves longer. the colors are late and we haven't even had a killing frost yet which is also late. and this following a year with one of the driest summers on record. we just never know what cometh. thank you for sharing thoughts dave ... :)