A Change of Light

 —Poetry and Photos by Ann Privateer, 

Davis, CA

 

 

THANK YOU, AUTUMN

For the Embrace
For Idle tremors
For love’s joyful feeling
     under the blooming bower

Trees murmur in the breeze
Falling leaves give rapture
As we repose together
      a treasure tasted

Stretch and heal
When our eyes meet
And we identify
     all the feelings

Every day
Every way
Every one
     just because

They’ve unpacked
This moment, this Now
Sky radiates
     blue eyes

And smiles.

 

 

 

 

I REMEMBER

The old Sycamore tree
All alone in what's now
A furrowed garden plot
Left behind after so many
Trees were cut or died.

Seeing it stand alone
I wonder, if it’s lonely in the forrest
Alone under the setting sun
Does it long for companionship?

A chrysalis
Endures, it exhales
Health for all
Us grounded beings.

 

 

 

 

SOON IT WILL BE

Day light savings
A change of light
And the time
Less becomes more
Time to reflect
To gather together
And to celebrate.

______________________

Today’s LittleNip:

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

―Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

______________________

—Medusa, with a welcome back to Ann Privateer, and thanks for her fine poetry and photos, reminding us that autumn is not far around the corner!

 

 

 

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