That Pivotal Moment

That Pivotal Moment

Red bushes are burning.

Sugar maples are ablaze.

Cool air invigorates.

Ahh, rejuvenation!

Welcome back, 

autumn days.

Spirits are revived.

Each step falls lighter.

An end and a beginning

merge into one,

and that pivotal moment

couldn't be brighter.

Flamboyant

Flamboyant

Fall is the time when the trees become

like your eccentric Great-Aunt Irene.

One day: conservative, quiet, sedate,

dressed in a dignified, dark green.

The next: crazy, wild, inhibitions gone,

parading around, making a scene.

Flamboyant in yellow, orange, and red.

Life's too short to always wear green.

The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners

Late August early mornings
bring the raucous complaints
of a flock of geese overhead.

Their squawks and shrieks
rattle through the air,
breaking the peace,
clattering through the empty skies, 
echoing, 
like a honeymoon-bound car 
with strings of soup cans 
tied to the back bumper,
and a "Just Married" sign, 
taped to the trunk.

The honeymooners travel
with hope and uncertainty,
as the geese do,
to a new season
and a new start.

Geese making travel plans by the lake before taking flight.

Calendar News

Hello everyone. I've been lax in posting on this blog, but I am still around. I've been spending the holidays with my two sons and husband (in picture above) and with my extended families.

I do have news. Some of you may remember that one of my poems appeared on the September page in the Writer's Rising Up Digging to the Roots Calendar in 2014. The new calendar for 2015 is now available for free download for those who are interested, and two of my poems are in it. If you click here, then look for the months of June and November, you can read my poems that are included in the new calendar.

Speaking of calendars, I wish all my readers a Happy New Year! I hope 2015 is full of love, laughter, happiness, and blessings for all of you.