Winter is coming....maybe only Autumn 

but here in the Northcountry

Winter is just round the corner

Frost is  already on the pumpkin 

the trees are already sporting

their colorful Autumn attire

but a beautiful as they might be

I've lived here too long....to be deceived

Winter is warming up....or rather cooling down

In the wings awaiting its' time on the stage

Don't be deceived Winter is coming.... 

Another trip to the Doc's
feeling good
6 month checkup
but always look forward
with apprehension
I am after all
approach my use-by-date
maybe....but then we all are
None of us comes with
a warranty/guarantee
for X amount of years
I know that worry doesn't help
that worry won't change
what is to be and yet
In fact it might make
matters worse....and yet....
Another trip to the Doc's
feeling good
6 month checkup
but always look forward
with apprehension 

Some days when the "muse" doesn't come
and I sit here twiddling  my thumb
I'll search high and low for a rhyme
will even commit grammar crime
If stuck I will start flippin' a dime
I may even sprinkle some thyme
and then I remember oy vey
that's just really not your way
you poetry has  free-form lines
that almost never have rhymes
I'm trying to find an end
but before I ramble around the bend
with no end in sight
I'll just say....kaput....and be done

New Year
new "hills" to climb
or just the old ones
at my age sometimes
I long for flat ground
maybe a gentile slope
preferably slightly up hill
but it is what it is
If it is a steep uphill
I'll plod on
slowly but onward
If a steep downhill
it is what it is
you don't always
get to choose your path
you only get to choose
your response to it

Winter has come a knocking again
Calendar says Winter is still 
a few weeks away
but here....obviously
Winter can't read
or rather can't be bothered
with what should be
but rather with what is
Life is like that
we'd like to see
what's to come
we'd like to plan
our days, our years, our lives
and sometimes that works out
in the way we wanted
but Life....like Winter
has a "mind" of it's own
and sometimes with both
we don't get what we want
but sometimes we get
what we needed
even when we don't want it
and sometimes we get
what we deserve....
But Life and Winter remain
and we have to learn
to deal with what they bring....

Darkness falls early
this time of year
days keep getting shorter
nights keep getting longer
there is a growing bite to the winds
the leaves are changing their colors
and soon to be blow hither and yon
and all too soon to be covered
in blankets of snow
and tho I dread it's coming
Winter as with all seasons
is just one visible sign
of the circle of life
but as I approach
the "winter" of my life
I must admit....
I yearn for Spring
yet a few more times 

a brisk morning walk late summer. early fall
crisp and clean my kind of weather
and I wondered when was the last time
the last time i enjoyed a walk so much
and I started musing about last times
We usually remember first times
some with fondness, some with regrets
some with joy, and some with sorrow
or simply I glad that's over with
but what about last times, we all have them
At my age I probably have more then most
people I will never see again
some of these I look back on with fondness
but also with loss and sadness
others I look back on and think, good
 they're out of my life, knock wood
also things that circumstances have taken away
whether from age, location, health,
the fact that place, time, opportunity
is out of reach or just isn't there anymore
but I must not dwell any longer on last times
there are still some first times left
and hopefully some next times as well

Summer's heat
it's humidity
the thunder storms
I can live with out
But Autumn is coming
I love Autumn
the cooler weather
the flights of geese
winging the way south
even their "honks"
the color of the season
the trees showing
their true colors
I've always loved Autumn
I played soccer
ran some cross-country
the last few rounds of golf
and then there is
Thanksgiving, a great meal
fellowship with the family
only one draw back
to my beloved Autumn
Winter is just around the corner 

I'm number #1...We're number #1
my response: "I don't care"
there some that must always win
but with them it's not enough to just win
every one else must lose
I strive to be better every day
but not so I can win and others lose
I strive to be better every day
so I'm just that...better every day
The only person I need to compete with
that I must get better than
is the person I was yesterday