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MICHELMAS
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since 2012-02-15

Posts 305
Lancashire England

0 posted 2012-02-15 05:51 AM

LAST LEAF OF SUMMER

Autumn past,winter now, so deep so cold
Horse chestnut fruit, another day to fight
Fables of times long gone, by firelight told
The fullest moon, on frosted fields to light
And willow bare, where once its leaves did weep
And on a branch a leaf still clinging there
A memory precious in my heart to keep
Do eyes reflect or sometimes only stare
My thoughts of you to murmur on the breeze
A snowflake falls its symmetry unique
Can hearts turn cold just like a pond to freeze
Neath silken gown, a fairy ring mystique
Then like a dream the final leaf did fall
On frozen ground to wait for spring to call

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-02-15 06:59 AM

Beautifully composed sonnet, Michlemas . . . That last leaf had borne winter's ice blast and spring, as they say, is just around the corner.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2012-02-15 07:26 PM

Beautifully done! Welcome to the many halls of Passions in Poetry.

Carpe'Diem
~ Mysteria ~

MICHELMAS
Member

since 2012-02-15

Posts 305
Lancashire England

3 posted 2012-02-16 03:49 AM

Thank you for your comments
Michael

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2012-02-16 09:56 PM

Michelmas,

Welcome to Passions! Please do check
your email for a Very Special Welcome!

This poem has an Old World quality,
and I believe I, for one, am going to
enjoy your many offerings.

Again, Welcome!

"The business of the poet...is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things." Thomas Hardy

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2012-02-17 04:05 PM

Can hearts turn cold just like a pond to freeze

Yes... and too many do! I enjoyed this very much - welcome to Passions!

MICHELMAS
Member

since 2012-02-15

Posts 305
Lancashire England

6 posted 2012-02-20 04:25 AM

thank you for the comment suthern
Michael

aujussy wolf

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since 2003-08-09

Posts 1215
Michigan

7 posted 2012-02-21 12:40 PM

Great writing, flavor of the experienced pen, very well done.

In his mantle gray he walked one day across a shining floor and with crystal key in secrecy he opened an ivory door -J.R.R. Tolkien(T.Bombadil)

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