It’s autumn here: the leaves fall brown, <br />the nights are cold and frosty, <br />the days are shorter and shorter, <br />there’s snow on the way… <br /> <br />is autumn asking you to be sad? <br />Go take a walk: fill your lungs with air – <br />isn’t that good? Don’t you feel the air <br />singing of everything that nature needs <br />to keep things going the whole year round? <br /> <br />Llisten as you walk <br />to all that goes on in silence; <br />secret movements pretending to be stillness: <br />the trees are making plans for Spring, <br />the plants, the flowers too; the earth <br />is bubbling secretly with thoughts of Spring.. <br /> <br />If on an autumn walk <br />a Persian poet met a Japanese poet <br />they might write <br />a Persian haiku: <br /> <br />This autumn evening <br />my mind is full of endings; <br />trees smile as they plan.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/autumn-in-the-northerm-hemisphere-spring-in-the-south/
