"SUBTLE HAZE" ?

Subtle Haze of Darker Days

(i.e., those yet to come)

As grayish days grow longer,

Moon's shadows beckon stronger ;

The squirrels and sparrows

Play in barrels,

Perched among the

 Footpaths, narrowed...

Saturn spins ghost-tales

Beneath twilight's dusk;

Venus drips billows

Of late-evening musk.

Autumn-bred corn husks

Top sweet-scented  hay bales;

Fancy-faced pumpkins

Dot cider-sprigged

Fence rails...

YET...

Nature turns tearful

When scanning the hillsides:

Its bounties are dimming,

Its pastures wane, sun-dried.

Oh!  Heed the far echoes

Of  wind, rain and cold...

Spot butterflies quicken

 On each marigold...

poem written by L.P.-G. / Sept. 2024

GATHERING REQUISITE INSPIRATION AS

 

September winds down...

"Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished"

                                                                 -Francis Bacon

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest"

                                                -Goethe

   

 

"Nature I loved, and next to nature, art"

 "Happily we bask in the warm September sun,

which illuminates all creatures."    — Henry David Thoreau  

By now, we've said:

             FAREWELL & BYE-BYE

                         TO THE 8TH MONTH 

                           

   Don't tell me it's over,

Thick dew clutches clover;

      Cicadas still spook passersby...     

Pale oceans spill over

 Those white cliffs of Dover;

Bright monarchs

Fling mist toward

The sky...

Smoke-stacks

Toss ashes about

The limed grasses;

Gray pigeons in eaves launch this coo:

 Adieu, sweetest August !

You're one in a million !

  Oh my, how we EVER loved you !!

  Come again soon !!!

    poem written by L.P.-Grenn / 8-2024