To Autumn

[wellinghall]

Season of cold and languid joylessness,
With never-rising, ever-setting sun;
I cannot praise thee, and I cannot bless
The time from now till February is done;
When colds abound, and everyone shall sneeze,
And cough and lie in sickness with a sore
And aching head, with pains from all the hells.
And we go back to work or school once more,
And still more, and who any goodness sees
(Except John Keats) in sorrow, cold, disease,
And autumn, when all homes are prison cells?

http://dasliedvondererde.deviantart.com/art/A-Parody-of-Keats-42493375

Comments

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

This resonates with me - but maybe the real autumn will be better? (On the principle that we've had all the above already??...)

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Hear hear. Wake me when it's summer.

[chainmailmaiden]

I like autumn. If it rains & it's cold, it's a good excuse to have a fire (if you're lucky enough to have a hearth and not live in a smokeless zone). You can drink things like hot chocolate & mulled wine. Loads of lovely things like apples, pears & plums come into season, meaning I can make apple crisp cake, pears in red wine & cinnamon scones with plum jam :-) Not to mention pumpkins! Pumpkin soup, roasted pumpkin, pumpkin pie...

And of course my favorite part about autumn is that there's Christmas to looking forward to and prepare for :-D

[estiel.livejournal.com]

It's my favorite time of year. Spring is next, then winter, last is summer.
Seasons are gradations of expansion and contraction. Summer is full expansion, winter is full contraction. It relates to mental health, too. Summer represents the end of the mental health continuum that says "out of control". The other end is "out of touch." The one is hysteria, the other depression. Autumn is a time of withdrawal.