Autumn Falls

A soft glow at daybreak...
A hurried passage across the sky...
An abbreviated hurrah as night falls...
The summer sun succumbs to autumn.

Branches shudder loose their colors
as night's chill defeats day's warmth.
The ground becomes a stained glass fresco
of red, orange, and yellow panes.

Chilled tendrils of fog waft over still ponds
stubbornly clutching the last of their heat.
The shoreside choir has been silenced;
croaks muted 'til spring taps its baton.

Contented sighs escape as vapor clouds...
Eyes droop with drowsy submission...
Life slows in the season of contemplation...

Autumn falls.