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Buzzygirl
Junior Member

since 1999-09-11

Posts 42
St. Paul, MN USA

0 posted 1999-09-30 12:30 PM

She melts into a purple cloud:
she silvers the hunter's moon;
her maple's burning-orange leaves
sing of a sleep coming soon.

She flowers her language in leaves ashen-red,
so shortly, clothed breathlessly;
I blink: they wave down about my head
seeking covers of snow eternally.

I drink of her flowers: still-silken, their leaves
and, for a short while, I knew
by heart, the song this coolness breathes
where once the snowdrops grew.

Crystalline frosts lie upon the grass
misted early mornings now wake cold:
the smallest of puddles are roofed with glass,
reflecting her reds and her golds.

The notes of the cricket grow soft and seek length
as does the sparrow's, aloft in some bough;
as day gives up self, the night gains its strength,
both singing still; no, not for long now.

I cannot take with me her sun and that sky:
a song I can't hear, yet it sings to my eye-
and even now, she bends her head
over rich, dark roses, still blushing red.

Autumn dies in beauty:
by color and by fire;
but her shroud will be woven
As snow-white attire.

Night lays its head upon my brow:
In sleeping I shall dream
Of her silver-pointed willow boughs
Dripping their fingers in leaden streams.
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September 29, 1999

INclan
Senior Member

since 1999-07-20

Posts 1024
Indiana, USA

1 posted 1999-09-30 01:09 PM

OH! I like this one! Being a hunter I enjoy the Fall. Love all the colors and the chilled air. Well Done.

INclan

Pepper
Member Elite

since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

2 posted 1999-10-02 11:16 AM

this is beautiful Buzzygirl....wonderful visuals in this work....

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 1999-10-10 04:03 PM

Magnificent!

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Denise

Munda
Member Elite

since 1999-10-08

Posts 3544
The Hague, The Netherlands

4 posted 1999-10-16 07:23 AM

I love the Fall, just as your poem. : )

Watcher666
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 1606

5 posted 1999-10-16 07:56 AM

This was beautiful! Well done.

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Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you.

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

6 posted 1999-10-16 08:31 AM

Buzzygirl, this is really beautiful well done !

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What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Coleridge

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

7 posted 1999-10-16 02:03 PM

'Autumn dies in beauty
by color and by fire;'

Excellent! I so love autumn and poems about autumn!

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Denise

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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8 posted 2004-05-04 03:12 AM

beautiful! just beautiful!

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