OctPo Day 5: Summer's end

Today's poetry prompt is to "write a poem influenced by your feelings about autumn." Well, I have many feelings about it, mostly positive. I love fall! But I chose instead to say a long goodbye to summer, as here in Northern California summer tries to hang on until Halloween.

Word prompts: chill, changing, harvest


Late summer

Green leaves and
warm days
belie
the subtle chill of
morning
that burns off brightly
with none the
wiser.

Let's ignore
the changing leaves
that fall here
and there,
and still pretend
it's summer.

Too soon
a cold night wind
will blow away
the last of
summer's warmth,
heralding
autumn's harvest
of  squashes, nuts
and red fruits.