✨ Autumn Begins
little by little...
Autumn Begins
Autumn begins unnoticed. Nights slowly lengthen,
and little by little, clear winds turn colder and colder,
summer’s blaze giving way. My thatch hut grows still.
At the bottom stair, in bunchgrass, lit dew shimmers.
—Meng Chiao, trans. David Hinton
From Classical Chinese Poetry, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Copyright © 2010. Used by permission of the translator. Photo by Jerry Wang, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.
I was inspired by this poem to write a Haiku.
Brush stroke of amber
Colors the trees; leaves let go.
Blanket covers the ground.
Lovely!