The Golden Wood

 

I found myself in a golden wood

on an autumnal afternoon.

The sun was hidden behind a cloud

wrapping the trees in a misty gloom.

Still the color could not be veiled

and the leaves shone like doubloons.

As I walked among the silent trees,

I sang a song of an Elvan Queen

"Awake, Awake Oh Lady of White

slumber not in middle earth dream."

The answer came on a gentle breeze

That stirred the leaves with a sound like rain.

The center of the copse was suffused with light

As a bird trilled a single note in echo of her name.

Toadstools

 Spooky trivia for Halloween: 

The word toadstool comes from Dutch and German words meaning "Death's Chair"

From the Pumpkin Patch

Happy Halloween!

 

 

 



Trick or Treat

 

Hello Kitty all dressed up for Halloween 

Who knew she had a Goth side!



Last Kiss

 

Beneath the chill October sky

A rose blows open just in time

to scoff at Autumn's wintry bite

and give summer one last kiss goodbye.

Haunted

In the stillness of the summer heat

I swear I heard a shadow neigh,

and as from the shifting of restless feet

a whispered rustle of phantom hay.

 



A Fairy's Tale

Once upon a summer sky

The fairies dreamed of candy clouds

Shaking out their wings, they left their forest beds

To follow the sugary scent that filled their little heads

 

Only Susan's wide brown eyes 

witnessed the gossamer fairy flight

 

"Come sit at my table and I will delight, " 

ordered the Queen of a foreign land

But her mead was not so sweet
as the candy cloud in their dream

and the fairies could not be turned from their plan

 

"We are delicious, taste and see", the phlox cried  

bowing low as the fairy crowd passed them by

 

To other calls they paid no heed
 

For their destination was in their sights
 

Oh happy was the fairy king

 

Oh joyful was the fairy queen

 

 

The heady aroma that filled their dream

 

was the nectar of the legendary Ambrosia tree

 

 



 





Lucky

What will you find at the rainbow's end?

 

 

If it was a white picket fence, a victorian farmhouse and a barn with a red red roof



Would you call yourself lucky?



Christmas in July

To cool down in the sweltering July heat......

Indulge in the memory of snow.

Seascape

Shades of blue, green,white, gray, brown and black are the colors that we associate most closely with the seaside

Look closer though and you might be surprised to find some other unsual colors in that palette.

Is there a usual color that speaks to you of the beach?

It has always been purple for me...

Cosmic

The great curling waves that roll in from sea to sand

mirror a spiral of stars flung across night sky

a distant galaxy

Kaleidoscope

With the slightest twist,

the shards of glass shift,

the colors drift,

a new pattern is formed.