NOVEMBER 2025 -- Faraway Places

 

© LJR 2025

FARAWAY PLACES

Faraway places often populate my dreams

Lush rainforests teeming with arboreal life

Remote Pacific Isles with sands of inky black

String of crystal lakes hidden in the northern woods

Harsh glacial expanses where penguin waddles dwell

Wildlife viewing camp near a busy water hole

Towering temples lost amidst the desert dunes

Dusty lunar craters few others have explored

Geodesic domes housing a Martian colony

Yes, faraway places may populate my dreams

Yet all this traveler needs is a nice comfy chair

A hot cup of tea, and a waiting stack of books

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OCTOBER 2025 -- Ode to Autumn

 

© LJR 2025

ODE TO AUTUMN

Calendars may point out the equinox

But nature marks autumn in other ways

Let’s grab our jackets as temperatures dip

Ready to explore this seasonal change

The animals know, see their shaggy coats

Migrating flocks wing across leaden skies

Canopies sway, shedding their summer load

Leaves spill down, a flurry of red, yellow, brown

Fungi flourish, mushrooms relish the damp

Frogs in the bog pond settle in deep

Bright flowers fade, dispersing their seeds

Ripe grapes and berries hang heavy on the vine

Acorns dropping, one just missed your head

Pumpkins piled high, awaiting Halloween smiles

Laughter and shouting, a corn maze explored

Sipping hot cocoa round a fire-pit blaze

Harvest moon rises, looming orange and large

Yes, autumn’s arrived; winter waits in the wings

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