Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Autumn leaf

Laughter eloquent as leaf,
in golden, shimmer shudders,
to dress the sky so briefly;
and haunt the soil in time.

These offerings of Autumn
hang lightly in the air,
and dance decays becoming;
twixt life and death ensnared.

Each one is born in solitude,
and dies alone at last,
in crumbling drifts eternal;
from tree to waiting earth.

https://dversepoets.com/2017/03/28/poetics-from-natures-point-of-view/

10 comments:

  1. The autumn leaf is a phase in the cycle for the living tree. Eventually after the leaf decays the tree may reabsorb the nutrients. Nice perspective on that leaf.

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  2. Oh, my. I am enchanted by this line:
    "to dress the sky so briefly"

    Sigh.

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  3. This has a beautiful cadence. Each stanza is a gem.

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  4. I love the cadence in this.. and how brief the beauty can be.

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  5. 'to dress the sky so briefly;' beauty of a line....i also like the image of the 'waiting earth'...

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  6. such like describes 'life'. great write :)

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  7. nice cyclic cadence...leaf comes and goes.

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  8. What a beautiful cadence this poem has. I love the image of the waiting earth. Toni Spencer is Kanzensakura.

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  9. Life and death are entwining, from autumn leaf dying to the waiting arms of spring ~

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