AUTUMN

"Icy shards spreading,
Hollowed cheeks dreading
The onset of autumn.
Weathered Nazca lines,
Upon the forehead of father time......."
See this face
Once cherubic,
Now
Rarely angelic
Misted with the chill
Of autumn.
Flying south
Watching with greying eyes
Falling leaf dies,
Waiting
For the coming
Of winter snow.
Early frost
Piercing aching limbs
Eyesight dims,
Tears
As the watery sunlight
Moistens leaden cloud.
Rainbow horizons
Springtimes fewer
Impaled on fates skewer,
Autumn
Dawning reality
Awaiting you and me.
Phil Hall  March 2015.