Once Upon a Time Poems

Change of Life

Autumn comes calling again with:
moonbeams scheming through
soft sketches inside the haze,
croaking, droning, frogs,insects,
rainbows of hues on rusting leaves,
tiny branches bared in silver lace,
pine needles crackling under foot,
weed pollen in the air,
a robin’s feathers in the dust,
scattered stones, high wave forms,
hoof beats, beagle barks,
snow on the mountaintop,
first blaze in the fireplace.

And without any frustration,
on the trail to retrospect,
glistening sidewalks mirror
the steps taken through the years,
as homage to recurrence
of another change of season,
of another change of life.