WIP End Season Flowers, © 2018 Michelle Kogan, watercolor and watercolor pencil.
Happy Poetry Friday. I’m sharing some poems and art about Season’s End, changes, and another amazing Moon flower.
FLOWER BIDS SO LONG…
I’ve taken a turn
decisively east–
Petals all spent, but
spines happy at least.
Pods pleasantly plump,
leaves stretch every way,
carry me with on
this dark dismal day.
I’ll offer a lift
come follow along–
Keep me close in heart
as I bid so long…
© 2018 Michelle Kogan
moon kissed magic
emerges at dusk
as fall unfolds
© 2018 Michelle Kogan
Stop by Jone MacCulloch’s Blog Deo Writer for this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup and perhaps some of Jone’s amazing photo images. Thanks for hosting Jone!
Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 
Thanks for your post, Michelle. Your moon flower is beautiful – and I love that you have filmed it so we can see how it moves with that stiff breeze. Definitely ‘moon kissed magic’.
Thanks Sally–I don’t think they like the rain and winds that much…
ahhh… flowers shutting down and fall unfolding… nature is always saying goodbye and hello at the same time! (I think I’ll put that in a poem!) Thank you, Michelle! xo
Good idea for a poem. BTW I have an octopus poem ready for you, but I’m still working on a sketch–I’ll send you an email soon, thanks xo.
It’s cold here today, and you’ve written it right, Michelle, “as I bid so long”. I love the video of your moonflower & hearing the wind. Is that thunder, too? The inside of the bloom is so pretty.
Sorry it’s cold Linda–too bad we can’t entice summer to stay a bit longer. It might have been thunder, I have many more blooms on their way.
Ah, the lovely, elusive moon flower. I just had someone suggest that I plant them along my fence.
That would be lovely Margaret, you’d have giant white blooms opening one after another.
Somehow paying tribute to the season’s end helps ease the transition, I think. A beautiful assemblage, Michelle.
Thanks Michelle–perhaps it does…
Oh, what a pretty moon flower. I will so miss this season. I always do just feel the loss of the warmth and the talking leaves. I really will keep that moon flower in my heart during the cold.Thank you for the gift of it.
Thanks Linda, my moon flower is full of buds and I’m anticipating many more blooms to come!
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The flowers of summer may bid us so long, but you immortalize them in poetry, art, and now video! (Do you draw from photos in the winter or go visit botanical gardens or ? )
I do all of the above Tabatha. I also draw from the winter’s dried flowers through a window or very quickly outside.
You captured the turn of the season in your two poems. The moon flower seems to be waving goodbye to us and to summer!
Thanks! Yes, I like that Mary Lee, waving goodbye!
“Petals all spent” is a sad image, however, in trying to look at the brighter side this week, if the petals were spent in providing us with eye candy or a pleasing scent, then it was worth their sacrifice.
Wow, I just reread that after hitting “post,” and I was shocked at how someone could come along and interpret that as a metaphor for women as expressed by the 1980s culture. I did NOT mean it that way. I’d better shut up.
It’s easy for politics to meander into many of our thoughts today…
Michelle, ah the season is ending here too. The rain dampens the ground as the temperature falls. Going from 90 degrees in Florida to 62-70 in Long Island is my cue to say good by but I still want to linger in summer. Thanks for the drawing, the last poem and the video. I am wondering if you would like to combine those with a thought about transitioning to Fall for my Abundant Autumn Gallery? It would be a wonderful intro.
Thanks Carol-yes sounds good!
Very touching poem & haiku, Michelle – sad to see the season end, but autumn has a beauty of its own!
Thanks Matt. Yes Autumn is beautiful, and brings change.
What a lovely way to welcome Fall, Michelle. Thanks for all the goodness in this post!
Thanks Jama-hoping to milk more out of these fall flowers.
I’m not quite ready to say goodbye yet, winter is so very gloomy here, but nature certainly lets us know when it’s time to let go, doesn’t she?
Yes– summers hard to let go, I agree.
It’s hard to say goodbye to a season, but it’s nice that there’s another beautiful one coming. I like your poems! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
Thanks Ruth, I do enjoy the changing colors of fall…
What a poignant poem to say goodbye to summer and flowers–even though they’re not all gone yet! Thanks for sharing your lovely poems and paintings!
Thanks Susan, and I’m glad some are still lingering on a bit…
Love the pairing of these–petals spent, fall unfolding. Enjoy the change!
Thanks Buffy!
Sigh….what a lovely farewell to summer. I’m grateful for the cooler weather, though!
Thanks Kay–though I think we are going to get a day or too of hot temps before fall fully takes hold.
A lovely post, Michelle. “Moon kissed magic”–perfect!
Thanks Molly!
Your poems paint beautiful pictures.
Thanks Kimberly!
I love your sketches and paintings and the poems that come with them. Thank you for the shout out.
Thanks Jone!
Lovely
Thanks!