| Autumns Of My Youth Autumn fires warm me tracing a path back to yesterday through a cast of leaves ablaze in flaming hues crackling beneath my feet Back to the days of adolescence frolicking in fresh raked leaves scattered amidst a slumbering ground gathering them to sew life into the autumn man with his corn husk hair, and button eyes- smiling his October smile. under a tangerine sun that peeked through the flaring foliage, flickering its kaleidoscope rays on a creek bed where a caterpillar in his fall jacket crawled across the jagged edges as birds sang the last song of summer a reminder that the days were fleeting As the scent of burning leaves lingered in the evening vapors. When rustic apples shrouded the earth like rubies that lie waiting -- for natures creatures to scurry off with them to store away for a winter's brunch. A crisp chill gives way to hibernation thoughts that dance on an autumn breeze chasing me back to the autumns of my youth. (c)copyright 2006 all rights reserved.< Autumn Poems The Poetic Seasons Of My Soul |
