Trodden Be These Paths

Trodden be these paths
Holding to the season new
Amber, gold, scarlet and green
Nature's palette, October's hue
Leaves alight and settled some be
There is a fork in the road ahead of me
Venture new my heart does call
Change ahead in life's season of Fall.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Photo : Road in autumn, Bruno Monginoux / www.Landscape-Photo.net (cc-by-nc-nd)
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Late Summer Sun

The warmth of the late Summer sun I yet feel
Whispers of the changing season this day to reveal
Vibrant strokes of yellow upon birch tree leaves
Taken alight by this day's caressing breeze
A calm resolve, Summer's bloom hushed in fulfillment array
Trees, brush, fields of green, readied for the Fall parlay.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



View on the Catskill, Early Autumn (detail), Oil on canvas, 1836–1837, Thomas Cole, 1801–1848, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


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