Autumn: Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope colours carpet the ground

A palette of yellow, red, green and brown

Splashes of sunshine transform the prosaic

Layers of leaf-paint pattern the mosaic

A blustery breeze

tugs at the trees

Somehow they know

they must let go

With spiral flutters

as Autumn mutters

And makes her bed

with tear-leaves shed

Her blanket soon fades, leached pale by the cold

Her leaves disappear, consumed by the mould

She falls into slumber and dreaming she yearns

For the colours of Spring as the kaleidoscope turns

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