The Fall

 

The falling leaves
From sun spent trees
Shed their grace
Down to the ground
Falling

Sweeping

Twirlings and twistings
All around
To the bevy
Of vegetation’s fertile
Bearing seedlings

 

Basking upon the earth’s floor

Awaiting the crisp blanketing
Of Fall’s brisk refrain
Cascading flutter-flies
Under the skies
Bright in the sunlight
Breathing in the beauteous bounty

 

 To alight

In the feathery show pieces

Dancing in the wind beckoning

Them leave
Their pinnacle
And embrace
The face hidden
On the surfaced wellspring

The falling leaves

Sometimes
Drift about
As a song
For a lady

Planted on the banks of the river

Sounding melancholy and kinda blue

They sail too

On wings of a dove
Woven in coats of the many colors

 

 Of the seasonal hue

Rustic browns and tainted tans
Morning yellows and sunset golds
Bold reds and pumpkin oranges
Peak-a-boo pinks

Shadowing violet speckled in-laids
With olive and lemon peels
Changing in the brush
Sitting among the greens

 

Falling through

Dressed pines

And times

Of pasts and comings
Of the harvest
From summer’s crossing over
To the other side

 

Like the rushing tides

Who stem
From the deep
To speak
To the story
Of the Master in His glory
Painting the day
From the Kingdom Hall
This glorious season
We call
The Fall.



“Let Your work (the signs of Your power)

Be revealed in Your servants,

And Your glorious majesty
To their children.
And let the beauty and delighfulness and favor
Of the Lord our God be upon us;
Confirm and establish the work of our hands –
Yes! The work of our hands,
Confirm and establish it.” Ps. 90:16-1

Looking at “Spring”

.
The word “spring”
Is defined with several characteristics

Spring is assigned to mean -
Move suddenly (as in a flash) upward or forward;
Move quickly by elastic force,
such as a device that recovers its original shape
when it is released after being distorted
(having properties of the word - resilience);

Spring denotes -
To grow quickly,
(as in, “The flowers bloomed overnight”);

Spring is used -
To describe, making known suddenly,
(as in, “Surprise!”);
To come from by birth or descent;

Spring can imply -
To develop a leak through the seams;
It is also used in referring to a source of supply,
(as in - water from the ground).

The word Spring
Is most commonly and most frequently known
As the season between winter and summer.

Spring is also used
In relation to other words -
as with…

Springboard -
Which derives its usage in meaning
Vaulting,
or a tool used for diving;

Spring fever -
Characterizes a restless feeling of sorts
often associated with the onset of springtime;
Spring tide -
Describes a greater-than-average range
that occurs at each new moon and full moon.

As “Spring” relates to today,
I see Spring to be
The beginning
Of a brief moment in time
When the season calls forth
New buds to come into the light
of the newly arising suns(sons)
being seated on the horizon
Called forth to… 
”Come fly with me”
As summoned by the gentle voicings
of my friend, the flurrying wind
who speaks to the word -
“Begin!!”

Amen, amen
Ruth

“My beloved speaks and says to me, Rise up, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away.” (Song of Solomon 2:10)