Autumnal Equinox

Melancholy muse on this cold wet day that sees the official start of Autumn (in Turkey @11.44pm to be precise) and Persephone's return to Hades.


Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 1923