the leaves give a lingering goodbye
small parts already departed
their absence a bittersweet embellishment
Those Polka Dots
Good Manners
this autumn leaf flittered and flew
delivering a personal goodbye
to each remaining hour
This Tree
still waving goodbye
to the trains
that no longer cross the trestle
Becoming
in saying goodbye
the leaf became
a butterfly
Intricacies Of Goodbye
abrupt or lingering
departures always leave something
if only the new beginning
How Winter Looks back
flakes freezing
as they fall
winter’s long goodbye
Reading Signs
goodbye
was written
in morse code
Beautiful Goodbyes
as colors fade
the intricacies
of structure emerge
Until We Meet Again
waving
in the wind
flowers adieu
Like Lovers Parting
monarch and flower
kissed by the sun
one final embrace
before the journey’s begun
Calling Card
fall left
a sweet pink
goodbye
Until We Meet Again
grasses weep
a tear or two
bidding summer ado
Too Soon To Say Goodbye
like summer
we linger
by the fencepost
Until Next Year
grass waves goodbye
to the deep blue
of the cold sky
Migration
headed south
the honking
of goodbye
Sweet Goodbye
final visit
to the last
of the lilacs
Until Tomorrow
cheerful wave
the end of day
colors of goodbye
Fare Thee Well
feathered ones know
winter says goodbye
in snow
Bedtime
tenderly the day
kissed the sky
goodnight
Kiss
the day arrived
in wisps and sighs
the kiss of color as night goodbyes
Late Bloom
delphinium unfurls
a final wave of blue
summer’s sendoff
Goodbye Note
in the language of leaves
summer left behind her message
I will return
Embrace
fingers of moss
entwine the old tree
a lover’s goodbye embrace.