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Autumn Menu

Autumn butters us up, spreads gold on crisply toasted grass to melt beneath a harvest moon; honey stored by busy bees on bold summer evenings sweetens the dry offering with a sheen of liquid gold.

yellow loosestrife

Autumn butters us up, spreads

gold on crisply toasted grass

to melt beneath a harvest

moon; honey stored by busy

bees on bold summer evenings

sweetens the dry offering

with a sheen of liquid gold.

Responses to “Autumn Menu”

  1. Lyle Krahn

    Liquid gold – absolutely. That might describe the whole season.

    1. melodylowes

      It has been lovely, hasn’t it?

      1. Lyle Krahn

        Hopefully we get a long one.

      2. melodylowes

        Every one of these lovely fall days helps to make up for a long winter.

  2. Gallivanta

    Delicious!

    1. melodylowes

      Eat up!

  3. bennetta faire

    Oh Mel! I only had to read the first 3 words, and I was craving warm buttered toast–and I just finished lunch!! Arrggh That honey sounds really good too–oh dear, I may have just lost the day to eating…..

    1. melodylowes

      That food theme seems to keep creeping in… 🙂

  4. RoSy

    Oh beautiful – picture & poem! 🙂

    1. melodylowes

      Thank you Rosy!!

  5. Rum Punch Drunk

    Love the ‘sheen of liquid gold’ line to sum up the remnants of summer. Autumn has indeed arrived and the bees have taken their honey to some place else. Lovely, warm poem Melody.

    1. melodylowes

      Thanks Rum Punch! Today I’m making salsa and grape jelly to further preserve the summer – in jars on my pantry shelf. 🙂

  6. I HAVE A VOICE

    Ever feel you’re being swaddled in your own sacred manger-lulabye?

    1. melodylowes

      hehehe You Do have a way with words. Are you writing these gems down somewhere? 🙂

      1. I HAVE A VOICE

        I don’t see them as gems, just how I feel ~ why don’t you use them by polishing them up? no credit PLEASE ! XO

      2. melodylowes

        I may just do that. There can be tons of inspiration in a single phrase or idea – almost like co-writing!

  7. greenlightlady

    Melody, you’ve made autumn look, taste, and sound delicious to this spring and summer gal! Nicely done!

    Blessings ~ Wendy

    1. melodylowes

      I have to convince this spring and summer gal of the beauty of this season – it announces winter too cavalierly. But – I think I see just a spark of it! Quick – bottle it up for me! 😉

      1. greenlightlady

        You certainly had more than your fair share of winter last year…

      2. melodylowes

        Um, yeah – and I heard a nasty rumour that there is a prediction for a ‘bitterly cold’ winter this year. Here’s to predictions being incorrect?

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