Autumn, Chilling
Autumn, Chilling
I misread the saunter
of fall leaf
as butterfly landing,
but it’s cold for monarchs;
swallowtails, too, long high-tailed;
even moths
look for sweaters.
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Here’s a poem for open link day on With Real Toads. Both pics are mine from recent beautiful days! (Admittedly. the bottom one is a bit watery, but loved the swirls.)
Tags: Autumn Chilling, manicddaily, moths seeking sweaters, Not a monarch, swallowtails long high-tailed
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ManicDDaily 
October 6, 2014 at 9:49 am
I had to laugh thinking of moths looking for sweaters and suddenly I thought about the clothes moth and realize that there are some that really are hooked on sweaters.
October 6, 2014 at 9:54 am
Very very complete and vivid for being so brief(like butterflies) k–and the pics are wonderful, full of light and the movement of the seasons. I had a friend whose mother was hell on moths–she would follow them around if they got in the house and kill them, all the while apologizing, ‘I’m sorry little moth, but the curtains…’This made me think of her.
October 6, 2014 at 10:00 am
Ha. Well, I must be very gentle on them to take a look at some of my wool things! k.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:54 AM, ManicDDaily wrote:
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October 6, 2014 at 10:43 am
I love the swirly water pic too.. and love every line of this fun word play on season’s end.
October 6, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Okay, you have convinced me. Will take down my hummingbird feeders, still hanging hopelessly – fruitlessly – on the porch. Smiles.
October 6, 2014 at 12:20 pm
Ha! You are on a whole different coast! And altitude I think! Maybe a bit longer! k.
October 6, 2014 at 12:34 pm
ah..this is a beauty…
October 6, 2014 at 2:08 pm
Lucky you, you’ve got autumn there already! 🙂 I’m out tomorrow to London (I live in London, by the way, but in the sticks. So, when we, stick-dwellers, say “go to London”, we mean central London 🙂 )
Beautiful poem. Thanks.
Greetings from London.
October 6, 2014 at 2:13 pm
Ha. Thanks. I’ve been meaning to visit but working! I live about half my life — well a quarter– in manhattan and the rest up here. Thank goodness!
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October 6, 2014 at 4:58 pm
I just love the closing lines!
October 6, 2014 at 7:01 pm
BEautiful images with your fluttering farewell to summer.
October 6, 2014 at 8:19 pm
ha i could use a sweater this morning…i kept my coat on all day actually it was cold in the school as we have not made the transition…leaves are really starting to change here…
October 6, 2014 at 9:03 pm
even moths look for sweaters… perfect ending.
October 6, 2014 at 10:13 pm
🙂 Off limits here for moths, k. Especially those with or looking for sweaters. Seems we’ve spent the last half our lives in London over the past five years and then some before. Our daughter had a London job those last five but she is here now. Family, Hub and two daughters too. One daughter went back though for her last year in high school.
We have a bee shortage here in the States. Perhaps we should write of their troubles.
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October 7, 2014 at 6:59 am
Absolutely. K.
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October 7, 2014 at 2:13 am
I like that this one can be appreciated on so many levels, the word play is great. The swirly photo works for me, too 🙂
October 7, 2014 at 4:59 am
yes… though it’s warming up a bit, they say, for the rest of the week, here. and the crickets come in!
October 7, 2014 at 11:36 am
ha – moths look for sweaters for sure… just saw one inside today… we had a beautiful autumn so far – today is cold and rainy though…
October 7, 2014 at 9:18 pm
Love those last two lines. Yes, it’s sweater season for everyone! =)