Beholden Hallelujahs

Ps.66:1-3Make a joyful noise to God,all the earth!Sing the glory of His name;make His praise glorious.Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! Today's poem is a bit like a tot I love dearly, but at the moment have lost the delight in,because my patience has been worn to a frazzle! Maybe because there really are no words to truly captureOctober-kindled hallelujahs...(First the poem began to spill in 15-syllable lines but when I returned to it I had lost that rhythm so I tried to balance it with an extra syllable, but in the end attempted to smooth it, by reducing it to 14-syllable lines...)Anyone who writes knows we prefer when words flow and meldlike music from an invisible orchestra. October rouses Beholden Hallelujahs streamingEarth is God’s vermillion-golden Magnum Opus gleaming... Autumn’s color-palette captures awe’s speechless attentionAmber ambience enraptures heart and soul’s dimension... Sunbeam kindled leaf-lamps flicker, fragile grandeur scatters... October rouses Beholden Hallelujahs streamingEarth is God’s vermillion-golden Magnum Opus gleamingAutumn’s color-palette captures awe’s speechless attentionAmber ambience enraptures heart and soul’s dimension October regales creation with hues, mesmerizingVivid bursts of exaltation preface white baptizingSunbeam kindled leaf-lamps flicker, fragile grandeur scattersFlowers falter, bluejays bicker; orchards brim with ladders Woodlands woo us with ensembles where arrangements dazzleConsummate percussion trembles; tinseled treetops frazzleWhile we, beholden Beholders grapple with sheer wonderWhere the hearth of summer smolders with autumnal plunder Delight spills in exclamations perfectly enchantedAutumn-lover’s expectations bittersweetly grantedHappiness of fall eclipses farewell’s tug of sorrowWhile a sense of favour fills us with hope for tomorrow The heavens declare God’s glory; utterly spellbindingOctober, like a love story, leaf by leaf unwindingAsh and aspen lampposts wander from beaten path’s bustleHailing us to follow, under, over Autumn’s rustle October bids us to dally in its guiltless pleasureScale the hill, explore the valley rich with beauty-treasureNone of us are growing younger; we should seize each offerTo appease awe’s thirst and hunger from October’s coffer Leaf by leaf and hour by hour darling October dwindlesPetals from a mammoth flow’r that nature’s gusto swindlesWhile we, Beholden Beholders, hallelujah-smittenDredge the dimming of October for hymns still unwritten Janet Martin The heavens declare God’s glory; utterly spellbinding... October, like a love story, leaf by leaf unwinding...