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Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2004-10-06 06:13 PM

Shady Maple

The maple spills its summer green
And tips its crimson crown
And will tomorrow brush its leaves
Across the autumn ground

It’s given in to winter’s call
Succumbing to the breeze
And onto shades of clinging fall
Comes winter’s birthing freeze

And I look on as autumn plods
Across the golden field
But I, in turn, by Grace of God
Won’t let my passions yield

I am a stubborn maple tree,
Forbidding leaves to part
For all my beauteous dreams are pressed
In pages of my heart

And I will not consent for fall
To grow my visions old
And love will not allow the wind
To steal my dreams of gold

Elizabeth Santos
October 6, 2004

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2004-10-06 06:35 PM

Elizabeth,
When ever I read your poems I get a warm and tingly feeling.
Love Sy

SmartChick
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-09-23

Posts 7081
On A Journey To The Unknown

2 posted 2004-10-07 12:30 PM

Beautiful!

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2004-10-07 10:32 AM

How very beautiful... I love the way you ended this! *S*

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2004-10-07 10:32 AM

Good morning, Elizabeth...

this lovely dapples well...

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

5 posted 2004-10-07 10:38 AM

so very lovely Liz!

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2004-10-07 11:52 AM

nice

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

7 posted 2004-10-07 12:13 PM

Oh how lovely Elizabeth!
A keeper for my library.
Hugs~

~Autumn..the year's last, loveliest smile.~

skyshine

Member Elite

since 2002-02-07

Posts 3058
Beneath the northern stars

8 posted 2004-10-07 03:38 PM

Hang on to your dreams!

~sky

So you go and make it happen
Do your best, just keep on laughing
It's all on you, there's always a brand new day. -Avril Lavigne

James_A_Fraser
Senior Member

since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

9 posted 2004-10-07 10:11 PM

Do not consent for fall...or TO fall, until they brin the chainsaw.

I've always admired maples, because they save everything they have, and save it as sweetness... in order to jump out to a head start next spring, when green and not red is the most beautiful color.

~~J

garysgirl

Member Laureate

since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

10 posted 2004-10-07 10:30 PM

Very beautiful, Elizabeth.
Hugs,
Ethel

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

11 posted 2004-10-08 07:44 AM

And I will not consent for fall
To grow my visions old
And love will not allow the wind
To steal my dreams of gold

AMEN and as it should be
You go Lady!!!

Hugs Lee J.

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