GO FROM ME....

      "I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers..." - L.M.Montgomery

       FROM SUNSET to STAR RISE..( Christina Rossetti 1830-1894)

Go from me, summer friends and tarry not

I am no summer friend, but wintry cold...

A silly sheep, beknighted from the fold

A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot

Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot

Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold

Lest you with me will shiver on the wold

Athirst and hungering on a barren spot

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge

Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the hedge

Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back

My heart goes sighing............

After Swallows flown.......

On some time's summer's returning track

*Christina Rossetti (1830-94) was one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers,  sister of  artist/ poet Dante Rossetti. 

Photographs 2024

 

IT RAINS....

                        RAIN on the ROOF by Coates Kinney (1826-1904)

When the humid shadows hover

over all the starry spheres....

And.....

the melancholy darkness

Gently.....

weeps in rainy tears

what a joy....

to press the pillow

Of a cottage

chamber bed..............

And to listen.........

to the patter

of the soft rain

Overhead....

 

                "Let the rain sing you a lullaby...." -Langston Hughes

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Photographs 2024

 

LEAVES.....

"Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but it's beautiful to love the ordinary...." -M.J. Korvan

"The unwrinkled serenity made me into one with the still greenery, the drifting clouds, and the swooping birds.." -Alice James (1848-1892)

"I've seen a jillion miracles. green leaf is a miracle...." -J. Dean

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf.." - R. Tagore

           "I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze..." -Ann Drake

 

"Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly.They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar..." -Delia Owens

"Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead, have never seen them dancing on a windy day..." -Shira Tamir

"There is subtle magic in the falling of old leaves..." -Avijeet Das

                         "The golden song of immortal creativity...." -Amit Ray

"Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes..."- Alison Goodman

"They're falling, like they are falling in love with the ground...." -Andrea Gibson

                                                     "Every leaf speaks to me....." -Emily Bronte

"Make the ground glow and burn with light...." -Malcom Lowry

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour they are in their last days..." -John Burroughs

"What life can compare to this? Sitting quietly by the window I watch the leaves fall...the seasons come and go...." -Hsueh-Tou (982-1050)

                                "I am just a leaf...."-Gemma Malley

                                            

"Whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky..." -Dejan Stojanovic

Photographs 2024