Across the Ocean and other poems

Welcome Fall

Whimsically shaped clouds attract large crowds

of people looking to the sky

Beyond our belief the first looks like a leaf

as it slowly drifts on by

I do a double take the second looks like a rake

and brushes the leaf from the air

Another one comes shaped like hardy mums

with beauty beyond compare

Feels like a utopia next one's a cornucopia

overflowing with every kind of treat

Then floats by a huge apple pie

looks good enough to eat

The crowd starts to squeal next one's a home cooked meal

"Thanksgiving" in cloud style

There's a turkey overhead with stuffing and bread

and things only had once in a while

Next floating we see not one pumpkin but three

all wearing a backlit face

Then children all dressed in their halloween best

goody bags at every neighborly place

The clouds seem to dry no more pictures in the sky

we wonder if we've seen them all

Then last but not least moving in from the east

is a giant cloud spelling out......

"WELCOME FALL"