The dancing fall of dry withered leaves
Golden floor under the Chinar trees
Cool and refreshing breeze of mornings and evenings
Harvesting of paddy in the fields
Picking of apples and other fruits
Stored in the wicker baskets
Men women equally busy in lands
Lunch for the men, women carry
In wicker baskets on their heads
Threshing of walnuts a usual scene
Children preparing for their exams
Hide and seek of the electricity
Annoy students and displease others
Ladies burn drywood to make charcoal
Used during winter in the fire-pots
Sundrying the vegetables in wicker baskets
Which during harsh winter are cooked
To get a break from the busy work
Workers smoke through traditional Hubble-Bubble
Sometimes when it rains suddenly
People rush to protect their crops
Young working class of villages
Prepare to leave for outside the valley
Where they earn livelihood
And protect themselves from the biting cold
Like the pleasant spring season
Autumn in valley too is mesmerizing
(Writer is a teacher and hails from Qazigund Kashmir)
