Thanks For Autumn

                        Armstrong Valley, Kentucky

Lighted trees offer dancing leaves

In every possible hue.

Cotton clouds in purple shrouds

Float 'gainst a sky of pure blue.

Prairie grass bends and stands again

In submission to the breeze.

A Red Tail hawk cruises a balk

Then vanishes thru the trees.

My collar is raised as I gaze,

The north wind at my back.

On another day this wind will stay,

And snow will cover my tracks.

I cross the stream of shimmering beams

Reflected of the sun.

It bubbles around the rocks its found

Along its winding run.

I breathe in deep and feel the steep

Of peace that rides the breeze.

And, as along I trod, I offer God

Thanks for Fall days like these.

K.L. Dennie Oct. 2017