Autumn told me, "It's okay to fall." To me, autumn, you feel like home. Upon your arrival, I know that the days are going to be shorter and cold. It's time to take out the blankets, so snug, the sunshine now feels like a warm hug. The leaves turn auburn and detach themselves from the branches. The trees stand still, the weather is crisp, but there's comfort in this stillness. The autumn told me that it's okay to break, and fall. It's okay to detach. I like weather, gloomy and my coffee, hot. How about getting drunk on life, just one more shot. Autumn smells like nostalgia, a lost book in the shelf, childhood memories and friends. Everything is fading away like flowers and leaves, but beautifully. Autumn told me, that everything is going to be okay at the end.
For other's it's season of gloominess, whereas for me it's a season of nostalgia. How I lighted up that first scented candle and putted up those fairy lights. Luminous yellow flame of candle and golden beaming fairy light. The slow approach of nature towards winter. A season of balanced equilibrium of temperature, how could I hate it.? The big, old dried trees with pale or no leafs, where the birds sing in serenity and unison. A season of slow songs, beige and red color palletes, white blankets, a season of self healing and watching those white-blue orchids going away, a season for readers and John Keats' poetry (The ode of nightingale) and for artist's marking their asymmetry.
Season of mists yet clear sunsets where sun dives into the pink ocean of sky. People call it fall, but autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on their only chance.
Stepped into my homeland and saw the crop swaying in pure tranquility. And hair of homemakers lifting up by the soothing winnowing wind. The only greif-stricken thingo being, I visited it dreaming. A bittersweet story.
Everyone sings the songs of spring, failing to remember, those dry leaves which remark a new start, everything that collapses, blooms into something even mesmerizing.
It is a dark fall day.
The earth is slightly damp with rain.
I hear a jay.
The cry is blue.
I have found you in the story again.
Is there another word for ‘‘divine’’?
I need a song that will keep sky open in my mind.
If I think behind me, I might break.
If I think forward, I lose now.
Forever will be a day like this
Strung perfectly on the necklace of days.
Slightly overcast
Yellow leaves
Your jacket hanging in the hallway
Next to mine.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Autumn; it's like the warmest hug from someone you love after so long but it's still cold. It's a warm cup of coffee you made for yourself but it's bitter as much as it's sweet. It's your favourite chocolate cookie you want to savour forever but it's the last one in the box. Autumn; it's like that journal you kept in your childhood where you wrote about all the things you love but reading it now makes you feel empty. It's the sweetest kiss from your lover but it's a goodbye kiss.
orange october comes knocking in the middle of the night -
i wake up and all the leaves have fallen to the ground.
suddenly the sky feels like red velvet and the air smells like
smoke. my heart grows heavier as days traipse from autumn
to winter, the morning light growing dim the closer savings
day comes. i bid the moon goodnight and wake alone, in the
middle of the forest. i run with the morning mist for a while
until it evaporates, along with every memory i’ve had of the
summer sun.