autumn – One Woman's Quest

Sky Talk

(words and images mine)

Heavy Autumn sky cover
mirroring an internal gloom

I own this fight; this darkness
the trail is mine alone

Woodpecker’s drumming
fails to distract; I am submersed

Till sunlight pierces the veil
an unmistakeable allure

Gratitude, I am reminded,
always at the ready.

(Image my own)

In silken Autumn skies
looming clouds allure

Amid the constant flux
I am craving solitude

Stay alert! Sky warns
Change is coming!

Autumn’s undeniable beauty
will succumb to Winter

Quiet days will return –
a reassurance I savour.

(Image my own)

Summer yearns
sun burning
water cooling
life affirming
longing for love

I would hold you there
in those days of youth
when relationship
donned mystery
and fear shrouded
the path

But Autumn reigns now
a time for letting go
a time for turning
back clocks – time
lost in a mere blink
on the shores
of our story

And soon Winter
when I will knit
our memories
into cozy dreams
and while away
the frosty mornings
sipping from the cup
of moments lost.

(Eugi’s Weekly Prompt is : Autumn. Image my own)

Potted pleasures hail
Autumn’s arrival – gracious
welcoming party.

(Image my own. Haiku borrowed from One Woman’s Quest II)

Silent as the Great Blue
Autumn hues creep
shifting the landscape
altering my mood.

Do feathers quiver
at the ensuing chill
or is it merely human
this seasonal affect?

(Heron Reflection first appeared here August, 2019.
Image my own.)