Halloween echoes

Maple Bottom in Alps, Austria

A de ja vu
Crisp morning air
In August
Yellow leaves on the ground

Fast forward
Into September
Mist creates diamond droplets
Spiderwebs bejeweled our garden

The end of October is nigh
Halloween anticipation runs high
Dark times are coming
Stories be told
Of heroines and evil millenia old

The witches are flying
Their besoms knarly
Guardians of wisdom
Custodians of healing

The strong ones
The silent
The loud
The unseen
The ones dressed in black
The ones dressed in green

Come sisters join me
In journeys unknown
Across the darkened sky
A song on hollowed bone

Not a single verse of this poem actually works with the rhythm of the others. A bit like the leaves tumbling down all different shades and shapes and stages of decay. So this is probably more a random tumbling of thoughts. I also wrote this over three months August, September, October.

My fiery sword

I dreamed of my fiery sword again
Lost in the fall
And echoes of battles I don’t recall

Cold iron barrs across shoulders–not the same
As my blade humming from demons slain

A caged tiger in a strange world
A sad lion eons old

The dragons are calling
At the world’s end
And I can’t find my sword
My old friend

Shedding Leaves

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As autumn broaches
I shake off gossamer
Clinging on
From the younger year
The younger self

Gone are expectations of spring
Gone the heat of summer
 

As fall descents
Trees let go of foliage
I exfoliate, too
My mind
My self

The process still colourful
Bareness yet to come