Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

a breeze gusts,
and a moment later
leaves lazily fall

the foothills seen
through flame-colored leaves
look painted

green to burnt orange,
one tree holds the range of hues -
sometimes in one leaf

leaves swirl & tumble 
through the cemetery-
danced to life

dried fluff
catches amber rays
and glows

cloudless skies;
autumn crawls overland,
 swallowing green

the river dawdles;
 the colorful leaves stick
  firm & still

autumn bulrushes,
top-heavy on stiff stalks,
sway dizzily

rocky shore;
autumn's dry grass
& leafless twigs

leaf litter -
amid shades of brown,
a fleck of green