Nurture your Nature

Red, gold and green [233]

Red, gold and green

Green arbors of August
sag under a film of dust
(the dry-leaf rustle
and dry-throat rattle)

until change in the air
lightens their despair
as sunlight softens
and nights lengthen

while green yellows
and elks bellow
in the midst of the rut —
how gold turns to rust

and those reds we behold,
once bold,
that adorn the forest's crown
soon fade to brown

as all life bleeds
to prepare itself, a need
to cast off color
for deep sleep's pallor

perhaps to wake to light
after cold white nights
under a banquet of snow —
for inner embers glow

to hearten the hope that sings
of verdant spring
and renewal — after the breath
of autumn's death

and winter's hibernation —
that cessation
of what was once pursued,
now resting, waiting to be renewed.

© Kåre Enga [177.233] (25.september.2020)


32 irregular lines with an aabb rhyme.

For September 2020:

FORUM

Verdant Poetry Contest  (E) NATURE-themed quarterly contest. #2000001 by Choconut

prompts:HIBERNATION, CHANGING, COLOURFUL, DARK NIGHTS, WOODLAND WALKS.