Autumn Sunset (JM)

 (Joseph MacRae, published in Writers at Play Presents: The Art of Letter Writing, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, 2023. From 1992.)

Autumn Sunset

Sunset of orange and red

soon to set upon the West.

A pastel scene painted upon a 

changing sky.

Where clouds of grey mix with emerald light.

Now stained with gold, and trimmed in red.

Silhouette the mountains of purple haze,

and set the sea ablaze.

Soon comes the twilight, then the

night.