September

September©

For most, September means, alas, it’s back-to-school time.
And a word ending in ember, is indeed hard to rhyme.

September, is the first of the three ember months, do you know all three?
Yes the Sept month is number seven, but the ninth month, in reality, it happens to be.

A beginning of the harvest months, we all know as the fall.
Summer sees its end beginning; soon autumn then winter will call.

Time is now to care, for all end-of-summer chores.
Service the furnace, make ready the storm windows and doors.

Pruning and trimming, of the shrubs and the trees,
best to be done, by the first autumn freeze.

September, for some, may mean, the beginning of fall,
but yet for others, it means, time for Football.

Warm days remain, some even hot,
as some nights grow chilly, yet some nights do not.

A time of change, a time for us to prepare,
for a certain to come winter, and all that it shares.

The three ember months, soon come, of the next four,
At the end of which, another year ends and a new one opens a door.

So, just in case can you believe, with a rhyme, you forgot to remember,
as hard as it is to believe, it’s time, for another September.

Richard G. Shuster (from RandomlyRamblingRick, September©)