Autumn Breath ~ Friday Poetically

Every Friday at Onestop Poetry, Brian Miller of WaystationOne calls us to be inspired.  This week's featured artist is Alison Jardine.  Her work is indeed inspiring, uplifting, and got my pen running this morning!  After traveling through the work she features in her galleries at AlisonJardine.com, I have picked my piece, and am presenting here to share with you.  It's a great way to spend a Friday morning, and I urge you to visit Alison and OneStop to feed your poetic fires!

Autumn Breath

There is a time when one must eventually stop

Choosing of their own free will

To recharge, reflect, redirect

The tired, bombarded, over~lived soul

That, at our core, has occasionally been forgotten

Sometimes...

We are forced to stop,

At the hands of fate.

Through illness, loss, grief...

But there are other ways

To force the pause.

Like a big, deep, breath

On a misty, Mid~October morning

Lost against a horizon

In a raging sea of burning fire and melting gold

Knowing that true beauty

Comes with the acceptance

That one day,

The pause will be permanent

And the value within the beauty

Of that misty, Mid~October morning

Becomes priceless.

"Through Fall Leaves"
Alison Jardine