painted white pumpkins

painted white pumpkins

decorated with curling vines

colorful asters

multi-hued autumn leaves

gentler than jack-o-lanterns

with quiet joy, rather than horror

hunter’s moon

hunter’s moon

hunter’s moon whitewashed

the field in the night

highlighting evergreen boughs

as though laden with snow

leaving little place for a deer

to hide

yet this morning an antlered  buck

pranced through my yard

alive and well

to my relief

fall of yellow

a breeze

and its rain of yellow

leaves, warmth

of a golden summer

sun grown ripe

ready for the fall        

october gratitude

 bright sunlight filtered

by autumn-tinted leaves

brilliant, exotic flashes

of unsung colors

quicken my pulse

awaken my need to give thanks

wet tinged

rain

not as in florida’s torrents, but gentle, welcome

the first time in months my lawn has been tinged

with green rather than straw brown