Autumn Once More

Seeing as it's National Poetry Day today, here is one of my old ones with an added last verse.

AUTUMN ONCE MORE

Cool and crisp is the air today,
Autumnal aromas on the breeze.
Shrubs of evergreen, all blending
with gold-flecked broad-leaf trees.

Berry-bright brown hedgerows,
a precious feast for birds to share.
Apples waiting to be harvested,
so tempting hanging there.

Cold spells will change the colours,
to Autumn glory unsurpassed.
Giving that display we love
and remember from the past.

Soon the earth will be a carpet
of russet, red and gold.
when trees shed lacy foliage
as they have, since days of old.

As Autumn heralds in the winter
with those mists and frosty morns
Time for rainbows after showers,
fire-red skies at break of dawn.