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An Evening Walk in Autumn

written by: hedgehog

Slowly the setting sun fades into evening

Our track receding skirts by Long Wood

Beyond the trees, over the asphalt way

The pale stars were sliding into place

Too late now to turn back a different way

Fields filled the gloom and hid the path

As barbed wire that cuts fades out of sight

Silhouettes of Alder and Mountain Rowan

Reflecting like ice in the starlight's gleam

A Robin flies into the light of the setting sun

It's breast flashing red as a shooting star

We're half way home by the broken turnpike

Boots so heavy from walked in mud

The half moon pale, slips ever skywards

As we stumble over the unploughed field

Safe the house beckons by the distant stream

With the wood smokes smell drifting by

Voices grow louder as we near journeys end

Reluctant to enter we sit under the starlight

As the enduring silence speaks a thousand words