foliage – leaf and twig

Tender Hearted

amidst her silver foliage
fine and fancy hearts
on the garden’s sleeve

October morning
the landscape’s poem
told in color and light

bouquet
of leaves
autumn’s offering

each moment
an exaltation
saturated in joy

morning fog rolls out
revealing the days
new colors

encircled by color
fall’s final embrace

October leaves compete
in displays of gloriousness

Foliage
tells its own
color story.

Fall illustrates
with astounding beauty and inevitable departures
the lesson of impermanence.

The change is upon us.

Bold as a butterfly’s wing
foliage sears color into our memory
before the white blanket of winter descends.