Painting and Poetry

For the Autumn Journal ~

I may use this as the background photo for my next blog banner:

A new poem for today, as a feel of autumn is finally in the air.

I painted it first, and then traced it lightly with pencil,

but it's still difficult to read.

(So I've typed it underneath.)

So here it is, typed out for you to read more easily:

The Golden Cry

Without the sun and shadow both,

The dappled light would not delight.

I watch it flicker on the wall

As afternoon fades into night.

The midday of my life is here

And dusk is clipping on its heels.

This Autumn is my favorite time

Of shadows stretched on yellow fields.

O, lengthen all the Autumn days!

Expand the years of quiet peace -

Now hold me, Love! I hear above,

The insistent calling of the geese.