Fall To Black

"arting" by lolamouse

The summer heat has overstayed its welcome

and autumn chill is finally in the air

The gold and yellow fall down to the earth

and when I think of you, I fall to black.

October's fading light brings melancholy

Spirits resurrected from their graves

Your ghost haunts dusty corners of my memory

I see you in my dreams and fall to black.

You came to me so suddenly

You left that way as well

I try to be okay with it, but

Sometimes it's just hell.

The morning sun awakens tired limbs

but soon there will be frost upon the grass

Without a winter, there can be no spring

I close my eyes and let it fall to black.

October Blue

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Wandering the woods today

Thinking of the friends I've lost

Warm mist hanging in the air

and wondering about the cost

Autumn wind

blows right through me

Was there one who

really knew me?

What happened?

What did I do?

October blue

Looking up at strange clouds floating

Wondering if it will rain

Feeling sorry for myself

when I think of us again

Have to laugh despite it all

You understood absurdity

Mirrors for each other, you

would not believe what you could see

Hard to find

someone like you

October blue

Red and yellow

leaves beneath my dirty shoes

Distant memories 

mixing with the autumn hues

Sometimes I wish 

that I fit in

when I think of 

you my friend

Even now

I still miss you

October blue.

submitted for Poetry Jam, Connections

Autumn, Battle Creek Cypress Swamp

photo by Allison Tardio

Carpet of green

cypress needles under my feet

soft and sweet

Paw paw leaves

like fairy fans

their strange fruit overhead

or squished underfoot

overripe and candy sticky

Fallen logs

studded with faux seashells

the air heady with their musk

The creek gambols

over cypress knees

tickling

mud turtles

singing duets

with green frogs

Here

the world is

brown and green

lush and clean

I inhale
its essence.

submitted for We Write Poems, #73, I Smell Poem Pie