Judith Heron: "Into this foggy morning comes a song"

 

 

 

driven by no other instrument than dew
how it gathers into one small drop
falls from a fading apple leaf
 

and this music goes on
all over the tree
until faint sun bursts forth
 

October hush of morning
takes a bow

"Into this foggy morning comes a song" by Judith Heron. Published online by Your Daily Poem (October 28, 2013). © Judith Heron.

Art credit: "Empire Apple with Dew Drops," photograph taken on September 24, 2011, by Jon Wason (originally color).