When days grow short and nights grow long,
trees start to grow a corky layer
that cuts through every leaf-base stem.
Like falling books, unloved, condemned.

No chlorophyll to ink leaf’s page,
green’s superficial stories fade
revealing deeper colour’s signs,
like reading in-between the lines.

Xanthophylls are coded yellow.
Anthocyanins, red-purple.
Carotinoids have orange gowns
while tannins turn their pages brown.

Here’s a lovely link showing all those leafy autumn colours:

https://www.livescience.com/16508-fall-leaves-rainbow-gallery.html

Good Afternoon

We now feature at number 14 in the top Children’s Poetry Blogs.

Thankyou to everyone who contributes.

Heres the link.

https://www.twinkl.com/blog/world-poetry-day-2022-top-10-childrens-poetry-bloggers-you-need-to-know

Good Morning,

Above is a picture prompt. What comes to mind when you look at it?

Send poems to poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com

Have a great day!

Jeanie