autumns green

another rainy day calls
 “come!
come out!”

without  a doubt
i accept the invitation
expecting myriads of color

and am not disappointed
it IS october after all

the brightest, boldest
most energetic
of months

but today there seems  
a reluctance in the woods
to surrender the power  
of green’s
serene

presence


"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


surprised as i was by green today
i know nature will soon give way 
to the yellows, browns, and reds
and we will all be blessed by autumns warmth

for a little while

then winter white
will round the bend
but shortly thereafter rescind
to green
again


"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we scarcely mark their progress."   ~Charles Dickens