Day 27: Ashes to Earth (Ghazal)

Word Prompts: spice, essence, tangy, putrid, earthy; Poetic Form: Ghazal

Think fall and that is what I wrote about today. Just some of the simple pleasures that come with the autumnal bliss. Enjoy, Dear Readers!

OctPoWriMo

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Ashes to Earth

Ashes to earth, the loamy earth calling,

With aromas of earth and sky calling.

Songs of musky damp leaves that mottle the landscape,

Or the distant warmth cooking of apple cider calling.

What do you know of the autumnal wastes,

As the world slowly dies, is still calling.

With spicy cinnamon or tangy pumpkin,

Nestled within all thing edible and calling.

What do you think of this season of diminishing,

Both beautiful and desecrated calling.

Poetry Corner: Where at Last to Reign

It's been a full couple of weeks, and in a scant two days OctPoWriMo begin, and I haven't truly prepared. Since Tuesday are Poetry Corner days, I that I would visit Shadow Poetry and find a new poetic form to try out. Also, since the rains have come with the Tropical Storm Joaquin, today you get a rain inspired poem.

Today's form is a Ghazal, an odd numbered poem using couplets and a repeating word. Each couplet is it's own poem, yet together makes a whole poem. Greater than the sum of it's parts? Hmmmm...

I played a little with words and Rain/Reign. I hope you enjoy, Dear Readers.

When at Last to Reign

The skies at last open and rain,

I know that my time is at an end to reign.

The brightest blue sapphire skies,

have long since departed to the rain.

Cold steel grey papers the heavens,

where the gods have to reign.

Yet the clouds now have overthrown,

seated upon the throne to reign.

A hierarchy they have built this day,

when patiently they begin to rain.

A sign that summer at last has come to an end, 

when the gods have given into the rain.