Welcome to the season of fall! Today is the first cool front of the season, and I welcome it with wide open arms. Fall is a bridge season between summer and winter. So I am posting this photo by my friend, first grade teacher and photographer Lory Landry. It was taken at our local City Park near Devil’s Pond. I love it for its unique perspective. I get a funny image in my head imagining Lory on her belly taking this photo. She would do anything for a good shot.
A bridge is a hand to hold
Margaret Simon, draft
walking from yesterday
into today
which is to say
let’s go this way
together.
Please add your own small poem in the comments and encourage other writers with comments.
Reflections on the Teche 
I love this picture and the perspective it shows.
As summer fades to fall
we move forward
across the bridge
into unknown possibilities.
The path may look narrow,
but the potential is wide.
I love that ending “the potential is wide.”
Rose, I like the idea of moving forward with so much potential! What a hope-filled poem.
Margaret and Lory, thanks for the prompt and photo. Margaret, “let’s go this way together” is lovely.
A Mouse’s Dilemma
I intend to get across.
If I try, will I be okay?
Go straight or crisscross?
It’s such a long way.
Love that you wrote from a mouse’s perspective!
I love how this perspective became one of a mouse in your poem.
Sigh….making a poem at the end of the day with this lovely image.
“which is to say” such. a nice pause, pacing in a poem.
And wide potential…yes!
I vote crisscross for the mouse. LOL. Great mental image.
Autumn
Mise en Scene
‘neath cloud-crisp sky
Leaf-skitter stopsupon a bridge
looking for its lost
vanishing point
in Summer’s closed eye
Wonderful word play with cloud-crisp and leaf-skitter along with the personification of summer. Not bad for your end of the day offering.
Oh, wow, Linda. “leaf-skitter” “cloud-crispt” “stopsupon” — what a changing seasons poem.