November - Nov PAD day 12

photo by PSC 2016-11-5

November

In her early days she was bright,

cheery, full of light, an optimist

offering up riots of leaves –

so many shades – waves

of yellows and oranges

flooding into red, reflected

in wind-rippled waters;

thrashing shapes,

turbulent textures

against a blue background

a bottomless welkin;

but later,

her trees denuded,

filter a different light,

softer, weaker, all the while 

her darkness growing deeper,

disheartening, the shadows –

glum, gloomy, foreboding

a sinister storm brewing;

such an inauspicious end

to a month that began

with so much hope

and expectation. 

PSC 2016-11

Penned for Day 12 of Robert Lee Brewer's November PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge.   

Assignment: a month

For more, check out this link:  2016 November PAD - Day 12