The World Is Having Wash-Day

I wrote this while sitting on our front porch this afternoon and watching the rain we have needed so badly! :)

"The World is Having Wash-Day"

By Rachel H.

The world is having wash-day

And good old-fashioned showers

Have come to rub the smudges off

And freshen up the flowers.

The world is having wash-day,

And in the new-scrubbed sky

The raindrops fluff the cotton-clouds
And hang them up to dry.

The world is having wash-day

And all creation stops

To have their faces scoured

By the friendly silver drops

The world is having wash-day

and a cleansing cool and deep,

And soon will put on Autumn robes

before it's winter sleep.

In Honor Of This Month...

"September's Step-sister to August"

By Rachel H.

September's step-sister to August,

And she hasn't October's rich blood

But September supplied

The Autumn's fair pride

with the beauty of Summer's gold flood.

The golden-rod torches she kindled

With a grape-scented, playful young breeze

And the hollows she kissed

With a pale, clinging mist

While her blush reddened tall maple trees.

She danced with the royal-clad monarch,

Then laughed with the dimpling stream,

And she said goodbye

In an evening sky

And faded away like a dream.

So, what do you think? :) Of course, it is not as good as Helen Hunt Jackson's poem "September", which I think is unrivalled. You can read that here: But I was pleased with how it turned out! :)

-Rachel

The Inkpen Authoress's Autumn Writing Contest

Thanks everybody for giving me your opinion of the things I should be writing about on this blog! :) The face-lift has encouraged me, so I'm feeling a bit better about the blog as a whole! There is nothing more irritating than a writer's blog that has writer's block! :D Autumn is coming! I can feel it so wonderfully already! :) I think it may be my favorite season of all! So I thought I'd hold a contest- Each person that enters must write something related to the fall. It can be a poem, a short story, an essay, or just a description, like you'd find in a book! Be creative! Then, you all can send you submissions to: inkpencontestsubmissions@gmail.com . I'd like to have alot of people enter, so please link this contest to your blog if you would! :) I don't know how to make a "button" like everyone else has, but I'll put my header picture on this post, and then you all can just save the picture to your computer, and link the contest submission email address beneath it or something! (I really need to spiff up on my technology! ;) So here are the rules:





The Inkpen Authoress's Autumn Writing Contest

Submission Guidelines:

• All work must be the author's own
• Content must be appropriate (i.e. no language, suggestive material, immodesty, no taking the Lord's name in vain, etc.)
• There is no limit to the number of pieces you may write for this contest
• All submissions must be received by October 31, 2010
• The Winner will be announced November 2, 2010
• There will be one winner, and their submission will be posted on this blog, their blog linked to this blog in the winning post, (provided it is an appropriate one of course! ;) and their submission will be printed in our family newspaper: The Girls' Gazette. Have fun, and I hope lots of people will enter! The fall is such a beautiful blessing, so let's see what everyone can come up with! :)

-Rachel (The Inkpen Authoress) Oh! I almost forgot! Here we go!

Enter the Inkpen Authoress's Autumn Writing Contest!
inkpencontestsubmissions@gmail.com