The Leaves Still Fall

 

 

Summers over now, autumm bids greetings

chill breezes wandering the earth

sunsets of blazing auras in dusk skies

as a phoenix dying moments in flames

funeral pyre of summer skies

 

mountains stream trickles by my feet

from misty peaks down they flow

home of eagles soaring grace

pass wolves pack roaming free

to oceans shores of sand and rock

 

winters cold cape comes soon

here to cloak the land with chills and ice

flower bide farewell to the light

and nature returns to earths bed

quietly the world closes down

 

birds fly across land and seas now

warmth to which they do travel

animals in barrows deep in the ground

harvests reaped for colder months

hibernation time for the child of the earth

 

clouds gather overhead, dark and foreboding

harbringer of winters fury and power

rain storms on the horizons

misty breath upon my lips now

hazy and speaking of chills coming

 

and above my head, trees and branches

release their bounty of colours and hues

like a rainbow of life, drifting down

teardrops of dying leaves do fall

as summer is bide farewell