Autumn Chant

Rain and higher temperatures in the 40s.. a regular heat wave, is what is on the weather menu.  Snow down here is gone now.  In reality it never lasts long in South Jersey by the beach.  

Autumn is gone but leaves remain as do the remnants of the reeds that grow along the water, only they are orange, brown and straw colored now.   When the winds of winter whip them around they fly into the water like little boats.                      I am joining with Skywatch Friday.

Autumn Chant

Now the autumn shudders

In the rose's root.

Far and wide the ladders

Lean among the fruit.

Now the autumn clambers

Up the trellised frame,

And the rose remembers

The dust from which it came.

Brighter than the blossom

On the rose's bough

Sits the wizened, orange,

Bitter berry now;

Beauty never slumbers;

All is in her name;

But the rose remembers

The dust from which it came.

- edna st vincent millay