Navigating September

journal page - 9/7/07

Autumn approachs with a momentum that is full of saturated beauty... trees relinquishing their green to shades of amber and crimson and vermillion before sending it all down into sere brown piles along the roads and on the forest floor. It's truly a long and grand goodbye...one that gives us enough joy to wait through the winter for the return of green.

September

We sit late, watching the dark slowly unfold:
No clock counts this.
When kisses are repeated and the arms hold
There is no telling where time is.

It is midsummer: the leaves hang big and still:
Behind the eye a star,
Under the silk of the wrist a sea, tell
Time is nowhere.

We stand; leaves have not timed the summer.
No clock now needs
Tell we have only what we remember:
Minutes uproaring with our heads

Like an unfortunate King's and his Queen's
When the senseless mob rules;
And quietly the trees casting their crowns
Into the pools.

- Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)

Until we meet again...

Comments

[Mick Mather]

Two beautiful pieces tied together by a wonderful poem as a portent of autumn!

[Angela Rockett]

This is a really lovely image, Carla.

[krissie]

that is real art! wow and combined with the poem - oh so powerful!

[toni]

Isn't it amazing how the colors of nature reach deep into our work, surround us and consume us.
These colors are rich and deep. Beautiful.

[Aravis]

That first image has something of a Mother Earth/Autumnal goddess to it.

The second is so striking, handsome rather than beautiful.

Autumn is my favorite time of year. :0)

[Crafty Green Poet]

I love the colours in the first painting, so warm and vivid. I like the painting of the leaf too and excellent choice of poem to link bthe pictures.

[Fledgling Poet]

What a beautiful piece of artwork...and that poem really spoke to me. I do love fall when everything becomes crisp and vivid, but also feel a bit of dread because I hate what's coming...winter! Winter is long and bleak and cold -- I could very much do without it! lol Have a great weekend~~

[Kezzz]

I think the colors you chose are just lovely, I was wowed by that first piece!

[Liz Jones]

OOh! Very pretty-- I love it!

[the heartful blogger]

Just stunning!