September Dawn

SEPTEMBER DAWN

Golden leaves seen raining down.

Soon there’s a blanket on the ground

to be raked one sunny autumn day

while serenaded by the blue jays

for blue jays will find the stash

of ripe sunflowers seeds out back.

Here comes a squirrel with a hickory nut

now digging a hole in which to put.

Preparing for winter

with the fruits of summer.

His fluffy tail foretells

of winter snow squalls.

Sunlight is now seen shining through the foggy morning gloom

welcoming a September day where rudbeckias bloom.

There’s also yellow marigolds and mums seen

above the green grass still springtime green

for it’s been a rainy summer,

albeit a seemingly short summer.

White cabbage butterflies flutter

where the morning sunlight enters.

Bees are beginning to stir

seeking out bright flowers.

Last night’s rain drips from the eaves.

Needed, this rain does please.

Crickets chirp

giving birth

to a new day

where hard work pays.

Time to get started cleaning or deadheading or weeding

or canning or freezing or sewing or crafting or writing…

My day is never boring -

just too short and tiring.

Perhaps like me your work is never done.

Tomorrow there will still be a ton.

It’s my sanity

and my insanity.

* * * * *

Every dawn is a new page

to be filled with something sage -

something exciting to engage -

rather to begin a new phrase

or off each day to earn a wage,

every dawn begins as a blank page.

Your empty, blank page

may seem like a maze,

you hear yeahs and nays,

it leaves you in a daze

as commotion fills your days.

Please don’t end up in a rage.

Consider how you want your blank page

to read at the end of the day.

Select what you want to stay.

Reject if it isn’t okay.

Keep what is sage

for being sage pays.

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,

the one who gains understanding.

Proverbs 3:13

(Wisdom) will set a garland of grace on your head

and present you with a crown of splendor.

Proverbs 4:9

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