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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2021-02-06 01:11 PM

I saw it in the flowerbed,
Stirred briefly by the wind.
Faded and bedraggled-
Beauty now come to an end.

Two weeks ago, so lovely
But that's the way it goes.
I'd write a line in tribute,
To the autumn's final rose.

So full were all it's petals-
With the blushing flush of youth...
Now hardly pink, more greyish...
And I realized the truth.

As the flowers in the garden-
In life I fear that we...
Likewise fade with passing time,
Like flower, bush, or tree.

While driving through the mountains
A year or two ago...
I saw the autumn colors...
Each valley seemed to glow:

It happens when the timber,
Feels the winter's chilling breath...
The time of greatest beauty-
Is the omen of their death.

And so I thought about it-
Of people I have known...
I saw the beauty of their lives-
And then they soon were gone.

So now in recollection-
I'll pen these lines of prose...
A tribute to the beauty-
Of the autumns final rose.

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

1 posted 2021-02-06 03:14 PM

John...This is such a beautiful poem and tribute to the Autumn rose.
Thanks so much for sharing with us your poem and your heart...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

2 posted 2021-02-07 12:30 PM

quote:
It happens when the timber,
Feels the winter's chilling breath...
The time of greatest beauty-
Is the omen of their death.

Someone once said "Only those that live ever truly die." A perspective I didn't truly grasp at the time. After a life spent staying in line, never daring to risk adventure, I begin to wonder if the beauty I see in other people's lives is merely the fact they dared to live them while I simply watched.

NormalitxButterfly
Member

since 2008-07-09

Posts 107

3 posted 2021-02-07 09:51 PM

Beautiful and beautifully written

I leave to walk ahead, only to be lost
Even though I cannot see the end, I will leave on a journey at range, i think its alright if i disappear

NormalitxButterfly
Member

since 2008-07-09

Posts 107

4 posted 2021-02-07 09:52 PM

Beautiful and beautifully written

I leave to walk ahead, only to be lost
Even though I cannot see the end, I will leave on a journey at range, i think its alright if i disappear

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

5 posted 2021-02-14 10:02 AM

I think this is my new favorite by you. It strikes on different levels and I am definitely feeling like that rose these days.

The images are clear and flow is easy on the mind.

"I know this love will tear me to pieces
I know his hands will dig up my secrets"

Meg Myers

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