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It changes fast
that marbled sky
from sheets of paste
to curds of gray
and thin blue belts
with heads of steel
connected
by chain lightning.
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Clouds turn glassy
shadows break
we hasten through
the cracking storm
but pause to lift
our empty cups
to catch the rain
and raise a toast
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to the wild windโs
un-leafing
of the fall.
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ยฉ 1993, 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
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(re-post, revised)
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Beautiful
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Thank you! ๐
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The Magical fall.๐ฑ
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Indeed! ๐ Trees still have a lot of leaves on them here but going fast! Thanks for reading this, Willow. ๐
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It’s a pleasure Betty ๐๐๐
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Very beautiful!
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Thank you!
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This autumn offering is welcome, Betty. So great!
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Thank you, Audrey. ๐
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autumn storms, I remember those well from NY, down here with my oaks, it seems a constant shed of leaves like a dog ๐ beautiful piece, glad you’re bringing these back out to see โค lovely โค
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Thanks, Kim! I’d always wondered what leafy trees did in warm climates – if there was any kind of cycle where they lost their leaves. Interesting that they constantly shed and renew themselves year round! Hard to imagine. ๐ค๐๐ค๐
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A lot of oaks and so,e pines, odd ones not like Christmas trees, ponderosa I think, and even the palms fronds die off and new ones take over๐
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Interesting! I’d love to live in Florida just for a year to see what it’s like. Btw, my stepson and his family just moved down to Sarasota (right after Irma) and they love it there!
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If you come visit, I live twenty minutes or so from Sarasota, easy peasy and close. It’s great down here and so much to see and do, I think you’d love it๐
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That’d be so much fun to visit Florida and meet up you. (It’s only 3000 miles away. ๐ ) Unfortunately my traveling days are over cuz of chronic back pain. But it’s nice to dream. If you should ever get up to Washington State let me know. Seriously! ๐
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That’s quite a clip away, but if I ever do, I’ll let you know as that would be amazing to meet. In the meantime, we can always meet over comments and in my case this morning, coffee๐โ๏ธ๐
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That’s true – WP is like a little cafe where we can all meet up. ๐ Tea and chocolate chip cookies here.
๐ค๐ช๐
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I will be right over๐๐๐๐โ๏ธ
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๐๐ต๐ชโ๐ช๐ซ
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Ha, I see cookies. Me likes cookies…..lemme check the flights out. Oh wait, isn’t it cold there? If so, email me and I’ll send my address๐๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ฆ๐ฐ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐จyep, like my sweets๐
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Me too with the sweet tooth. (Mostly chocolate of course. ๐ ) And yes, chilly here. Wish we had Star Trek transporters – I’d be there in a jiff with treats!!
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Ha, hoarding the dark chocolate in the fridge…..trick or treat from our neighbors, jumbo bars…..mmmmm…along with the KitKat and Reeses cups….but I share….beam me up Scottie๐
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Reese’s cups and Hershey’s here – also willing to share! Prepare to transport! ๐๐คฃ
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Oh my, I gotta work tomorrow morning…perhaps on my next day off….love ya lady๐๐ช
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My treat! ๐
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Beautiful and perfect words for the new season, Betty. It’s pouring now, so I think I’ll “lift my cup to catch the rain and raise a toast.” ๐๐
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Cheers! โ๏ธ๐ง๏ธ๐ง๏ธ๐ง๏ธโ๐๐
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This is a superb poem. The last lines have such an epic ring to them that round it off to perfection. I love watching the clouds myself. Strange how so many people can ignore giant floating mountains passing over their heads, just to read another banal text…
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Thank you so much for such a nice comment! I too love watching clouds, and the sky in general. My dream home would have a tower where I could go up and view 360ยฐ of sky, clouds, storms coming and going. (In my next life I’d love to be a meteorologist by day, an astronomer by night. ๐ – along with being a horticulturist and an arborist and a landscaper and on and on. ๐ )
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Well, I hate heights so I wouldn’t envy you the tower! But it would be wonderful to have a job that involved watching the skies!
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Yes, it would! I don’t like heights either but three stories up would be okay, if the structure was big enough. (Like a room built up from the roof of a house.)
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I could probably manage a periscope.
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Un-leafing. I like that !
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Thanks, Peter! Glad you did. (My spell checker didn’t much like it. ๐ )
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So this is how fall ends, in a burst of lightning and rain on their way to a wintry storm.
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It seems to be. No winter storm yet though. (Sigh….. I’m already counting the days until spring again. ๐ )
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I want lots and lots of rain!
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Does that mean you really love rain, or just that you prefer it over snow? ๐ I love both, though don’t care for the cold (the older I get).
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This includes you my friend and is my humble gratitude. https://thefeatheredsleepcom.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/radiance/
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Thank you, dear Candice. A beautiful poem!
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You are so valued to me
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โUn-leafing of the fallโ. Perfect! ๐
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Thank you, Diana! ๐
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The pleasure is mine Betty! ๐
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Lovely job on the revision, Betty.
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Thank you, Ben.
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