Sweetgum Tree

Autumn is a celebration of nature, 
its rarefied air tugging at our senses, 
begging for praise for the Creator. 

June Masters Bacher

Purple, orange, green, 

Yellow and red

All the colors in one tree

Singing to the autumn sky

A host of shiny star shapes

Shaking and shimmering in the 

Sun and wind

Like so many frolicking children

Costumed and excited

 On a school stage.

Let the show begin!