Ripe

An Autumn Equinox Poem

© 2022 by Joyce Mason

 

I fall off the tree

full of myself

so ripe my essence overflows

oozes back to Earth.

I cannot dam my seeping vitality.

I am the chasing arrows of cosmic creation.

 

I am fullness bearing my own fruit.

I am the autumn of my life,

the autumn of every life cycle,

I am the juice of my own potential.

I will not miss this bloated moment,

fullness over-the-top.

To miss it is to rot,

to cycle without harvest

to stifle everything I can be:

a magical explosion of me-a-tivity.

 

~~~

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Goddess Save the Queen!

An Autumn Equinox Poem

© 2017 by Joyce Mason

You come on leaves gently blowing

air crisping

grapes ripening

carousel colors streaming

rich shades cavorting

sounds whispering the gestation of snowflakes.

You are sensuous, ripe, bounty.

Your grand entrance, fashionably on time

same time each year

long awaited

a lover returning from the Other Seasons

and the Other Side

too long gone

outshining the other times of year

not meaning to.

Queen Libra, gentle figurehead

of ardor and fairness

grant me sanctuary

for the one month

I feel at home

in the Monarchy of Love, Beauty,

Sweetness and Connection

Balanced by your Golden Scales.

I lean in for the Kiss of Venus.

~~~

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Equinox Poem: “Autumn Me”

 

© 2012 by Joyce Mason

All Rights Reserved

Cool breezes call me

to the autumn of my soul

farmer’s market of inner bounty

so overdone;

it’s almost obscene.

Colors so wanton

they put rainbows to shame.

I drink it all in

from gourds of change

smell the fall flowers of my bloom.

Flashbacks come

vibrant as the market scene

and leaves starting to burnish.

Déjà-vu: I see who

I was last winter

the seeds of becoming

planted in spring

the summer growth

and now, the yield.

I yield to my ripeness

bow to the Libra Sun

the new balance in my being

until I shed my autumn leaf skin

for winter hibernation

become another New Me

once more

nature’s loving 

recycling loop.

Autumn is Me in Living Color

bursting with the courage

and accomplishment

of another year of living

from life’s full

palette of possibilities.

~~~

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Semi-Circle/Autumn Equinox

© 2011 by Joyce Mason

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Turning point:
leaves
floating
changing
Cardinal reds
breeze cooling

Inside myself
I harvest
the learning
another year’s growing
reaping my sowing

mourning the loss
of beauty peaking
just before dying
comfort seeking

trusting rebirth
 

the circle completing
another half-turn
come Spring:

“To everything …”

~~~

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