Autumn Forest
By Tom Stanley



Standing in forest deep and green,
Older than old with stories to tell. 
Falling leaves of autumn strewn about,
A haphazard design of nature's wrath,
And its beauty. 
Crunching along, going forth, on beaten path,
Eyes afire with sacred gaze. 
Cool breeze rustling through the trees,
A clairvoyant call of coming winter. 
Season's change and time passes,
Rain and snow come and go. 
Deep and green, the old growth remembers;
A deep rooted memory of the past. 

Tom Stanley