It's Time For Hallowe'en

Copper pumpkins grin with chiseled fang
And blaze a burnt sienna roguish eye.
Blushing leaves rehearse a twilight twist
‘Til branch and breath are lost in lullaby
That sighs farewell to summer’s meadow green.
Without a doubt, it’s time for Hallowe’en!

Caterpillars crawl along the road
With woolly jackets, dreaming wings to fly.
Starlings swoop the harvest fields to roost
As sunset streaks of honking geese reply
To Beldame Nature’s artful change of scene.
Without a doubt, it’s time for Hallowe’en!

Clouds unmask a waning moon that slips
On spider threads across the autumn sky.
Elfin folk concealed by darkness paint
Their ghostly frost-writ ferns to prophesy
Foreshortened days with longer nights between.
Without a doubt, it’s time for Hallowe’en!