Sunday, 2 October 2022

Octomeber Day 3 - Songs For Harvest

 Welcome to day three! I hope you are all finding the prompts fun to work with. I quite like this one so let's see how you all find it: 

October isn’t just the season of spookiness and horror movies. It is also the time of Harvest before winter. And, to me at least, it feels like the loss of a lot of things - a loss of light and warmth as summer fades, for example. In this vein, write something that focuses on the ideas of harvest and the approach of Winter.

Harvest Moon

Scythe song - Reap the fields; iron sweep through cane and grass. Soft light of summer's last sun fading into the horizon. Bring a switch of wood to start a fire to warm us both beneath this burnt umber sky - hear the last call of songbird as they fly south.

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