Just Before Winter Poem by Peter S. Quinn

Just before winter
In autumn’s colors glow
When dreams are going
Into frost and snow

Just before the dark
In glow times away
When colors to gray come
From darkness of day

When the roses go pale
Into deep of fall
Their bouquets frail
Of the icily drawl

Just before winter
When day is almost gone
Where love will stop
That carries summer on

When colors are falling
In their memories
And darkness again calling
In wintry breezing trees

When the roses go pale
Into deep of fall
Their bouquets frail
Of the icily drawl