Gold Wind

The highland wind

Shakes aspen leaves

And pine scent flows

Autumn air cleaves

Forest spirits

I hear them leave

Snow comes, they know

Winter, death's eve

Blazing in gold

Quiver, restive

Impatient root

When comes the reave

Not soon enough

Cold ease of sleep

©️Sylphide poem/image 2021

Lake Life

mirror of the lake

serenity blurs focus

golden blue autumn

herons have journeyed

turtles and frogs begin dreams

beneath the frostline

the fishes stay deep

leaving water calm, glass smooth

schooling for ceilings

©️Sylphide poem/image 2021

Change To Autumn

Change To Autumn

Against the bluebird sky

Golds and reds

Delight the eye

Clean winds quake

The aspens' leafy eyes

  

How lovely are those hues

When shortened

Are the day's blues

Longer nights

Tell the trees what to do

The people come to see

Flames of leaves

On each changed tree

Marvelous

Vivid, gorgeous queens

©️Sylphide  poem/image 2021

Again

ancient statue

leaves brushing gently again

five hundred seasons

©️Sylphide poem/image 2020

Edifice

Tiberius 

First over the Carthage wall

Rome's great hero 

But to a mob did fall

Treachery

Or mortality will eclipse us all

Achievement 

To nothing, the worms doth call

Yet strive to mark

Your history, build halls

Inspiring the next

Generation to stand tall

©️Sylphide poem 2021

Clematis

alchemy of seeds

map of the joined nucleics

will pre-chill 'til birth

©️ Sylphide poem/image 2021

Prickly Rose Time

Reflect the light

Reflect each other

Double the scent

A thousand thorns

On the prickly roses

At peace back to back

It is their season

In the sun's heat

Welcome for the bees

Dancing upon the prairie wind

©️Sylphide    poem/image 2021

Queen Anne's Lace

Queen Anne's Lace

Petals of sweet scent flowers

Gone upon the wind

Queen Anne's scepter remains

The beauty strong, undimmed

Lace of blossom's bones

Live past fair summer's rescind

To be coated in white gowns

When frost fairies work begins

©Kiku Koibito poetry/image 2017