Saturday, September 28, 2013

The Happy Stillness

Hillsdale - Possum Bridge
Indiana photo by Marsha Williamson Mohr

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"Because September travels slow
I catch it when I can
and hold it over for another month or two."


by Rod McKuen
from the poem "True Holly"
found in Twelve Years of Christmas

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"It was a day of exceeding and almost unmatched beauty,
one of those perfectly lovely afternoons
that we seldom get but in September or October.
A warm delicious calm and sweet peace brooded breathless
over the mellow sunny autumn afternoon
and the happy stillness was broken only by the voices of children
blackberry gathering in an adjoining meadow
and the sweet solitary singing of a robin."


Entry for Thursday, 24 September 1874
from A Wiltshire Diary: English Journies
by Clergyman & diarist, Robert Francis Kilvert, 1840 - 1879

AUTUMNAL POEMS
these & more on my new Fortnightly post
"September Travels Slow"
on
The Fortnightly Kitti Carriker
A fortnightly [every 14th & 28th]
literary blog of connection & coincidence; custom & ceremony

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