POETRY FRIDAY

A found poem from Lin Yutang…  

I like spring, 

but it is too young. 

I like summer, 

but it is too proud. 

So I like best of all 

autumn, 

because its tone is mellower, 

its colours are richer, 

and it is tinged 

with a little sorrow. 

Its golden richness 

speaks not 

of the innocence of spring, 

nor the power of summer, 

but of the mellowness 

and kindly wisdom 

of approaching age. 

It knows 

the limitations of life 

and its content.

-  Lin Yutang

POETRY FRIDAY is at Anastasia Suen's Booktalking.