“That old September feeling… of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air…. Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer.” ~Wallace Stegner
HAPPY AUTUMN! When I was a little girl, before and during elementary school, I used to love the poetry of Scottish poet, Robert Louis Stevenson. Who didn’t own a copy of “A Child’s Garden of Verses?” His poems were great to read aloud! Here’s his “Autumn Fires:”
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
Ilene On Words 