Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
AUTUMN
Autumn brings a blush to countryside
as if the Earth had seen too much
of lovers from the Summer past
and with a deep red glow of modesty
prepares to shed her leafy negligee
and sleep in robes of whitest purity
until seduced again by temptations
of a youthful Spring.
— Vance Kimbrel, Jr.
Poetry Garden
