The Sound of Sunlight

Shadow of the house
Paints darkness on the bright lawn;
Breeze shimmers the leaves.

Green, yellow and brown--
colors of outdoors today.
No red this season.

Shadow of a squirrel
Scampers up the phantom tree
Laid upon the road.

The bright stream water
Sparkles forward noisily:
The sound of sunlight.

Shadows through the leaves;
Dark echo of bright sunshine.
Warm hush in the air.

Leaves fall silently,
Slipping, sliding on the road;
Whisked by passing car.


Brown on evergreen--
Dead dry leaves caught in mid air;
Cradled in the pine.

They are like snowflakes,
These leaves falling from the trees--
First one, then millions.