Autumn’s Cheer

The nights are drawing in
The sun’s reluctant stare
Is now a faded memory
No more its pleasant glare
I watch the swans now huddled
Against the wind and rain
The spring seems very far away
As comes winter’s domain
The cold and bleak stark winds
Now howl across the bay
Reminding all that summer
Is many months away
But then the sun relents
And shines so bright once more
And with the autumn colours
It opens nature’s door
And everyone can see
The golds and reds and browns
That banish all the misery
And smiles replace the frowns
So even as the winter
Stands poised to crash and scream
The beauty of the autumn
Makes all the eyes now gleam
A radiant splash of colour
To help us through those miles
And make sure for a part of it
We’ll all be wreathed in smiles

Phil Sanders
8/10/07

Morning Feelings

What loveliness inside?
And thoughts so deep within
What soft and gentle feelings?
As now the day begins
What hopes and fears surround you?
Emotions running high
What deep and lovely passages?
Within your heart do sigh
What glory in the morning?
And joy across your face
What passion now is waiting?
For just the time and space
What needs, desires are stirring?
As slowly now you rise
What sweet and sensual thoughts
Inside you now advise
So feel the morning’s beauty
Address the silky clouds
And banish now forever
The night’s drab ghostly shrouds

Phil Sanders
16/10/07

Pink Dawn

The pre-dawn casts a wash of pink across the sky
Illuminating lives and hearts and minds
Kaleidoscopic images form softly on the ground
To see just as the yawning day unwinds
A softness shows beneath the scudding clouds
Pink aura lighting gently from below
What mischief will the forming day provide
As seeds of moments it begins to sow
Just watch as now the dawning of the day
Will revel in the beauty formed so bright
As slowly and inexorably it comes
The passing to the day from darkest night

Phil Sanders
15/10/07