Autumn light –
tea-stained
honeyed
steeped
in maple,
ash and
hickory
burnished
gold and
poured through
branch and
leaf and
limb into
our hollowed
hallowed
hands.
Drink
up.
— C.Birde, 10/19
Tea Light — A Poem
Drowse — An Image
Crisp
cool air;
retreating light;
the earth’s slow
burnishing…
She made up
her bed
— carefully —
&
prepared
to
sleep.
— C.Birde, 10/19
Selene — A Poem
Pebbles &
pearls &
milky, cat’s eye
marbles;
halos &
oculi &
bright, silver
coins;
cups &
saucers &
spheres of
dandelions
blowing to seed.
But always and
above all these,
the Moon,
Oh,
the Moon.
— C.Birde, 10/15/19
Footlights — An Image
Bright-eyed
asters,
starry-eyed
asters –
perennial footlights
to Autumn’s
drama.
— C.Birde, 10/19
Attend — A Poem
Sweet-toasted
leaf-fall.
Crackle and
crunch.
Seduction
of trees’ collective
undress.
Observe
and pivot
beneath songbirds’
departure
over
under
through
Mark
the warp and weft
of praiseful wind
and heed
the crickets’ last call
and response.
Reign
of Autumn
scattered
shelled
hoarded
Attend.
Attend.
— C.Birde, 10/19
Wildflowers — Images
Autumn
wildflowers,
adrift
in green frills,
bid
the sweetest,
the fondest
of all
farewells.
— C.Birde, 10/19
Onward — An Image
Around
over
under
through…
But ever,
always
onward.
— C.Birde, 9/19
Confession — An Image
She confessed
her love
to the wide open
sky,
&
the sky
— humbled —
blushed.
— C.Birde, 9/19
Percussion — An Image
Castanet
R a T t L e..
Dash
& dart…
Chipmunk
departs,
cheeks full
of
peanuts.
— C.Birde, 8/19
Sip — An Image
Those
slender tubes
that no lips
redden,
tempt &
sweeten
the slim,
forked tongues
of visiting
sprites.
— C.Birde, 8/19