Summer's Goodbye

"While the earth remains, seedtime
 and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, 
day and night shall not cease."
Genesis 8:22

Yellow 
Is the color of late summer;

As it morphs from yellow to brown

By way of oranges and reds.

Autumn comes for a few short days,

Finds itself in the transition to cold

With the year's sunniest lightest color:  

Yellow Coreopsis, yellow Sunflowers,

Yellow Gum Plant, yellow Bitterweed

Goldenweed, yellow Sneezeweed, 

Golden Asters, yellow Tickweed.

Cut-leaved Daisies, yellow Gaillardia, 

Oklahoma yellow kissing summer

Goodbye with a tear

Greeting autumn with a happy sigh.