Snow Globe

Snow Globe

Summer marches steadily to its end

the twilight period comes earlier with each passing day

The gladioluses have bloomed from bottom to top

and the vines that cling to the fences are bright red

Autumn is knocking at the door

the end of the baseball season is ushering in hockey and basketball

The winds are blowing and pulling leaves off the trees

and the night sky is echoing with the migrating birds

I met you last fall

and things are not that different now

It's as though I've been trapped in a snow globe

just waiting for time to pass

Shake the bauble and count the snow flakes

lift it close to your face

turn my life upside down with an earthquake

Examine me closely, I'm behind the glass

break me out of this prison before winter comes to pass

Yup. You got it. I don't really know what that was about. I just wanted to write something about gladioluses because they are my flowers of the fall. They take forever to bloom. Storing up their energies all summer and preparing their blossoms to be shown off when all the other bulb perennials are done with their blooming. I dunno. That's it for today. Peace out.