I Present to You - August!

This is a re-posting of a poem I wrote while on holidays at the log cabins last year. Today and this evening had a real August feel to it. What a welcome change to the hot, humid and muggy summer we've had so far!

August Is Announced

The nights are cool
The berries are gone
The lake is colder
There's mist at dawn
Crickets are singing
In the evening still
We're building fires
To take off the chill
The winds of August
Leave tell-tale signs
The gusts and the gales
Sway the lofty pines
The evergreen's laden
Heavy with cones
Some leaves are tinged
In colourful tones
The woodpecker's drumming
His August tattoo
And the raucous bluejay
Is screaming at you
The asters in bloom
Are staking a claim
All down the pathway
They shout their name
The squirrels are chattering
About what's ahead
They eat all they can
Before summer is dead
August's announced
By Nature's call
Lending its voice
To the prelude of Fall

Mother of Invention, savouring these last few weeks of August.