Sunday, September 25, 2011

When Autumn was Delayed

I am ready for Autumn but,
it has been delayed,
after a brief tease of
cool nights
and crisp days
with the smoke of a wood fire
lingering in the night air
the sultry gray days of summer have returned
with mugginess, humidity, and mosquitoes
slugs slide across the lawn
a few gold tinted leave flutter to the damp ground
but everything hangs in this thick, soupy air
Waiting.

~Kathie Adams Brown (September 25, 2011)

4 comments:

  1. Lovely poem kathie! You do have a wonderful wat with the words.

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  2. Eileen, thank you! I love to write poetry.

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  3. Hi Kathie

    I really like this poem we have had a return to the warm weather here as well after we thought summer was over. You really captured it.

    Regards
    Guy

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  4. Thanks guy! Now it is cooling off again. I'm so glad!

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