November Musings: Poetic Paean to an Aging Autumnal Season

By Richard Kerry Holtzin

Abstract: This poetic title recounts a long day's evocative experience of the author's favorite month of the year. Specifically, describing a personal awareness of oneness with Nature, as conveyed by changing moods and scenery from moment to moment. Embarking on an early morning sojourn that ends just before sunset, the poetic stanzas chronicle the author's emotional and spiritual reactions of everything that befalls his senses--fallow fields and gardens, a blended fragrance of hummus and dried grass, animals and avians, trees and autumn leaves, clouds and shadows. Hence, a meditative, philosophical, and spiritual rendering whose rhyme and couplet is modeled after this sample verse: Shorter days and longer nights foreshadow a new season; November has aged and slipped by with favorable departure -Autumn leaves groom This spent day has left me much to ponder;thoughts washing upon cerebral shores of, my casting mind -Airy sentiments, like spume.As a retired educator and instructor for the likes of the Grand Canyon Field Institute, most of what I did for a living for some forty years entailed teaching various geosciences, natural and human history, environmental sciences, zoology, mathematics, and assorted published writings. What I revere most in life is Nature, particularly my allure with the likes of Henry David Thoreau and his descriptive, WALDEN POND. (73 pages, 7 x 10 format, with black/white photos and illustrations)For more background, go to the Amazon site and click on the synopsis or go to my website: www.richholtzin.com

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198188355X
• ISBN13: 9781981883554
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"