While Summer brings fun in the sun, and carefree days
And Winter is joyous with the blessing of Christmas , and family cheer
And Spring? Well, Spring is like seeing something beautiful and
new for the very first time - brilliant blue sky and budding flowers.
Still, it’s Fall that has always been a special time of year to me - the month of
October especially so, perhaps because it is the month I was born.
25 October when my world greeted me
with welcome arms and loving heart.
A feeling of wonder and change permeates the air.
Harvest colors, and a harvest moon;
Red delicious apples and candy corn.
Three poems help describe for me the aura and atmosphere of
the tenth month of the year
Dylan Thomas' Poem in October, in remembrance of his own birth month , and this verse:
Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly
Come in the morning where I wondered and listened
To the rain wringing
Wind blow cold
In the wood faraway under me
October by Robert Frost
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall
And this one, October's Bright Blue Weather by American poet and novelist, Helen Hunt Jackson
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone wall
Are leaves of woodbine twining
Not only Fall, but each season with its changing landscape, helps prompt us to reflect on nature's beauty, and weave it into our own story of life and love.
***Note: Helen Hunt Jackson (1831 - 1885) is most famous for Ramona, a novel about a Native American orphan facing discrimination and prejudice. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an admirer of her poetry, and used several of her poems in public readings. To learn more about Jackson visit http://www.poemhunter.com/helen-hunt-jackson/biography/
And Winter is joyous with the blessing of Christmas , and family cheer
And Spring? Well, Spring is like seeing something beautiful and
new for the very first time - brilliant blue sky and budding flowers.
Still, it’s Fall that has always been a special time of year to me - the month of
October especially so, perhaps because it is the month I was born.
25 October when my world greeted me
with welcome arms and loving heart.
A feeling of wonder and change permeates the air.
Harvest colors, and a harvest moon;
Red delicious apples and candy corn.
Three poems help describe for me the aura and atmosphere of
the tenth month of the year
Dylan Thomas' Poem in October, in remembrance of his own birth month , and this verse:
Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly
Come in the morning where I wondered and listened
To the rain wringing
Wind blow cold
In the wood faraway under me
October by Robert Frost
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall
And this one, October's Bright Blue Weather by American poet and novelist, Helen Hunt Jackson
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone wall
Are leaves of woodbine twining
Not only Fall, but each season with its changing landscape, helps prompt us to reflect on nature's beauty, and weave it into our own story of life and love.
***Note: Helen Hunt Jackson (1831 - 1885) is most famous for Ramona, a novel about a Native American orphan facing discrimination and prejudice. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an admirer of her poetry, and used several of her poems in public readings. To learn more about Jackson visit http://www.poemhunter.com/helen-hunt-jackson/biography/
2 comments:
Love reading this article and poems. You bring back wonderful memories of my Grandmother’s apple tree with the picture you posted. Thank you!
jm
You capture Fall well...good reading, Kath.
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