Autumn Operetta (for Nature comp.)

fracturing from the branches,
capturing it’s climatic glances
during it’s urban wander

enclosed within a orange torrent
composed on chariots of current
the prelude to ponder

blown by casual conversations,
tones of brown tour by a woman’s interrogation
of her significant other

hitchhiking on school children’s knapsacks
hanging jewels on lawn knick knacks,
in sunkist colors

of apricot, tangerine and yellows
zigzag and careen to a band of cellos,
whisked midair by footballs

watching people catch and then throw,
peeping into windows
in auras of auburn they befall

a chorus of chimera flame reds,
above the poorest and shame heads
mourning for yesterday

criss crossing on keys of the hurting
teetering on the breeze of uncertain,
arraigned in a tragic array

fluttering fuchsia flow into a lullaby
others uttering a solo from the sky,
a lonely acapella

bringing the melody of a martyr  
singing it’s requiem into the water,
the end of it’s operetta...