September song

Submitted on 7 Nov 2008
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Dear friends,

We’re into November already but I am sharing some thoughts from September on my website (http://www.janeupchurch.co.uk ). Now I have adjusted to autumn I really enjoy the amazing colours that the trees are casually displaying wherever we go. But I so love the sun and open evenings and green leaves that I can get a bit depressed when the light levels fall and I know we are heading for winter, as you can see from this piece.

September song

The wind is on the go again, the breeze is on the blow. It is shifting time, shifting smells, shifting seasons. Autumn is coming. It’s not hurrying, it’s making the most of the remnant sun, sneaking in on the back of summer. How strange that the fullness of summer, the crops of fruit and grain and memories, should mature into roundness and ripeness, not at the height of summer but at its end, a prize given to another season, the taste of summer long after summer’s gone.
©Jane Upchurch

To read the rest go to http://www.janeupchurch.co.uk/view/words

Do any of you get affected by the season’s change? How do you cope when you feel low? As a balance, I have also added a poem that I wrote at the same time last year when I was so aware of the purpose and pleasure of the plants, completing their cycle of seeds and fruit and happily laying low until next year.

All is well

The wayside plants talk to me
as I pass
in words of brown and green.
‘Hallo’ they say,
‘we haven’t seen you for a while,
are you OK?’
I smile and pass on
past huge, happy hazel leaves
grinning at the sun,
and wine-thorned stems of bramble resting
from all the pushing and growing and arching
with a maternal air
and nests of black drupes.
©Jane Upchurch

To read the rest go to http://www.janeupchurch.co.uk/view/poems

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Love Jane

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