A Symphony - Halloween

October is a symphony of permanence and change.
~Bonaro W. Overstreet

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Leaf Speaks

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
~Emily Bronte

Trees Stand

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~e. e. cummings

Autumn Sunshine

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Torch

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. ~Faith Baldwin

Decay

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ~Robert Browning

Yellow Floating

I, a light canoe will build me... that shall float upon the river, like a yellow leaf of autumn, like a yellow water lily! ~Hiawatha

Autumn Poets Sing

Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.

~Emily Dickinson

Golden Autumn Days

Yellow, mellow, ripened days,
Sheltered in a golden coating;
O'er the dreamy, listless haze,
White and dainty cloudlets floating;
Winking at the blushing trees,
And the sombre, furrowed fallow;
Smiling at the airy ease,
Of the southward flying swallow,
Sweet and smiling are thy ways,
Beauteous, golden Autumn days

~Will Carleton

Perfect Memory

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
~P. D. James

Autumnal Face

No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
~John Donne

Autumn Rain

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. ~Robert Frost

Scattering

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~Edwin Way Teale

The Winds

The winds give me
Enough fallen leaves
To make a fire

~Ryokan

Loveliest Smile

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. ~William Cullen Bryant

Impermanence

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
~Zhuangzi

Leaves Turn

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Leaf a Flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

Autumn

Autumn is my favorite season. ~Johnny Kelly

Falling Leaves

falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly

~John Bailey

Successive Autumns

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

Restlessness

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible. ~Sue Grafton

October

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps