GOLDEN HARVEST

 

The autumn leaves fall

Like flakes of gold

Drifting to earth like surreal snow

In the golden harvest

As they fall they dance

Wildly in the breeze

To autumns tune

Before coming to rest

Then on peaceful mornings

They gather in the quiet corners

That pepper the autumn landscape

Cast like a threadbare cloak

Spread by mother natures hand

And in the misty morn

The golden harvest

Lays deep and undisturbed

Like collected thoughts

In the corners of my mind

The watery sun slowly burns away the mist

And illuminates the October landscape  

Before the wind disturbs the peace

And chases the leaves away

Scattering them like my dreams

BROWN BELLS

 

Brown bells

Californian herb

With brownish-purple

Bell-shaped flowers

ROSA RUBIGINOSA

 

Rosa rubiginosa

Eglantine, will be seen

Rosa eglanteria, of Eurasia

Sweetbriar of desire

FIRST FLURRY

 

Amidst the first flurry

People start to hurry

And urgently scurry

 

For the very first sight

The first glimpse of white

The heart takes flight

 

I’ve come to know

When it first makes a show

How much I love the snow

TALES OF THE RIVERBANK

 

A bee sipping nectar from a flower

A sparrow sipping dew from a leaf

A butterfly on his way to somewhere

Pays us a visit but it was only brief

 

A duck quacks out on the water

And we hear a Kingfisher splash

An elegant swan glides effortlessly by

And the dragonfly makes a dash

 

PEACH BELLS

 

Peach Bells

European perennial

Bellflower with racemose

Of white or blue

BEES ATTENDED TO THE ROSES

 

Bees attended to the Roses

As Butterflies fluttered by

The great artist mixed his blue

And with it painted the sky

And the sweet scent of lavender

Lingered long on the afternoon air

Should we ask for better?

I don’t think we dare