but Autumn has gravitas.
Everything engages my senses:
leaves crunching underfoot,
green apples
and cinnamon wafting,
sundown hastening,
in a cloudless sky,
I marvel.
She’s a mournful beauty,
a defiant burst of color,
before surrendering
to the sleep
of winter.
[for D'Verse Poets a Quadrille, if you will with the word "cloud."]
Autumn is much more evocative, I agree.
ReplyDeleteI love the way this quadrille tickles the senses with sounds, sights and smells! I just want to get out there and hug autumn!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quadrille. :)
ReplyDeleteIndeed, a grave season filled with scents and emotions.
ReplyDeleteLove the imagery and the autumnal vibes and quiet winter warning.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of your very best. I love all the sensory images of autumn and you invite us to consider them.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of the autumn leaves showing a "defiant burst of color".
ReplyDeleteYes, she is. I do enjoy her fleeting beauty as well.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful season, short but with that defiant burst of color ~
ReplyDeleteYes! Autumn sings, fall is an accident. Wonderful poem, B.
ReplyDeleteA cloudless day in autumn is a perfect moment.
ReplyDelete"She’s a mournful beauty,
ReplyDeletea defiant burst of color,
before surrendering
to the sleep
of winter."
Gorgeous lines.
gorgeous, Mosk ~
ReplyDelete'She’s a mournful beauty, a defiant burst of color, before surrendering to the sleep of winter.' Beautiful lines!! 💖
ReplyDeleteI love this poem.
ReplyDeleteYes, to all the things you've listed in the second stanza
ReplyDeleteI don't care for fall because winter follows so closely on its heels, but you've made it beautiful and endearing today. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSimply gorgeous. And I love the "has gravitas" thought. Perfect.
ReplyDeleteI thought sure I commented...you had me at "gravitas" - even before all the sights and scents within.
ReplyDeleteShe does have a solemn feel to her...she has to bridge the lighthearted summer to the dormancy of winter. But she does it with such splendor in spite of that.
ReplyDeleteWe both seemed to be entranced by a cloudless sky on an autumn day. I went to the mountains over the weekend to enjoy the fall foliage.
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