May love enfold the seasons of your life…
Original DDE™ art: “Seasons” by: rob kistner © 10/23/25
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I lean out
through time’s open window
slow-breathed
the breeze
fragrant with rain
and possibility
spring’s nurturing light
spills across my desk
warming my youthful face
stimulating my imaginations
dreams of inquiry are coaxed
igniting discovery
the world going green
inhales deeply
reaching for more sky
bursting with life
cresting the golden hill
comes long-armed summer
energy pulsing
writhing naked
a’shimmer
dancing unbridled
flaunting itself unashamed
laughing unabashedly
radiant in the window frame
seemingly inexhaustible
but soon
twilight approaches
a brisk wind
wafts through my window
caresses my face
with a rejuvenating — smack!
snapping my reverie
autumn arrives unapologetically
boldly
it begins brushing
in broad strokes
amber
saffron
bronze
and rust
crackling colors of change
slathered ‘cross the landscape
with joyous abandon
then slowly
meticulously
Fall disrobes
the quivering trees
they acquiesce submissively
freely letting go
uninhibited
each leaf
a lesson in surrender
a chill stirs
the calendar turns
the hourglass inverts
darkness quickens
time slows
now the casement
holds more silence
than song
as winter settles softly on the sill
softly on my soul
quietly I close the window
embracing the sterling hush
glassen’d panes fog
frosting with trembled breath
beyond
the trees stand still
calmly quiet —
bare
but unembarrassed
waiting
I too wait
watching their vigil
feeling the ache of beauty
in their patience
knowing
this is not… an end —
simply a turn of the page
in life’s eternal journal
in the book of seasons
rob kistner © 10/20/25
Poetry at: dVerse