De-Composers
original watercolor floral/dried sunflowers: 11"w x 15"h
And So It Goes
Seems the sun has turned a sudden cold shoulder
On our summertime romance,
Apparently now over.....
Gone are those golden sundrops
Dripping warmly on my face
Shivering shadows
Have now taken their place
While cobalt blue breezes
Rustle about,
Announcing the advancing autumnal season,
Teasing my t-shirts,
Taunting my short skirts...
My sun flowers are in ruins
Their beauty in tatters
Seeds, petals...leaves
Tossed about...scattered
So begins the march
Of the soldiering squirrels
As they gather the remains
Of my golden sun girls...
(As quickly as ants
At a picnic, they advance
And I thought finches
Were sunflower grinches!)
So I’m left with the memories
A great golden wall
Where my sunflowers surround me
Standing true, standing tall
But wait
Didn’t that sun just now say?
“I’ll be back”
For next summer’s jitter-bug days!
BB
Bertie Brown - Lancaster, PA
blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com
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3 comments:
Yes Bertie! Summer is wrapping up. What a great painting and poem.
Wonderful post as usual Bertie.
Still beautiful, even as they fade away...
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