I walked back into the room after getting my breakfast. The baby is on the floor, trousers removed and waving a dirty nappy about. The toddler is tantruming about wanting to eat, but not wanting what he is given. The fish swim around their tank hungrily and there is a distinct air of autumn about the place. Wait a minute! AUTUMN! Already! I am still waiting to wear some of my summer clothes. Stop! That's not fair, we are going camping for the weekend in a couple of weeks. I am waiting for some more courgettes from the plants we re -potted a couple of months ago. We need to cut the lawn, paint the barge boards, build some decking, make a million. I suppose there's next summer.
The words of William Morris strike resonance in his poem Autumn (I am a bit tired and jaded at the moment):
Laden Autumn here I stand
Worn of heart, and weak of hand:
Nought but rest seems good to me,
Speak the word that sets me free.
Autumn
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I like autumn - I think it is nostalgic season.
And as you're quoting poems, how about Dylan Thomas, Poem for October.
"My birthday began with the water -
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horse
And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days"
Know how your feeling! Went winter shopping yesterday.. It was just so depressing! :( x
Don't you remember? We had summer ages ago. It was that one week in June.
I like this and am completely with you.
Thanks for that one!
I do like Autumn, but I agree Summer was supposed to last so much longer than it did. It lasted for months when I was a kid!
I thought we had until the weekend before the seasons change but suddenly the weather has broken and the world seems to have moved onto the next term - worried I'm going to get left behind
Our summer job list is scarily unfinished - still all the things we've not done in the garden will be covered in leaves soon
I haven't got anything done this summer! But I do love the autumn, it's my favourite time of year :)
I'm so glad I found this blog, love your style.
Lovely poem Mark. Dylan Thomas expresses feeling so well.
I'm glad everyone else is also behind on the summer chores!
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