Falls Call to All (a Sonnet)

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RSWells
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0 posted 2001-09-26 10:52 AM

Dwindling day defers to darker powers
In courting pleasing promises to all
It will change plain trees to colored flowers,
Vanity then leaves for this season's fall.
Auburn's rusted ruins to earth showers
Dry, brittle rustling passage is it's call,
Decayed remnants where once was bloom cowers
Drawn tight a widowed world's bleak prayer shawl,
Sadly stripped the humbled bare limbed bowers
Now witnesses it's wind raked offspring crawl,
The only saving grace light's shortened hours
For viewing beauty's wake 'fore shroud snowfall.
Dark the long cold night all life is facing
Silver hair of Autumn is it's bracing.

Sunshine

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1 posted 2001-09-26 11:02 AM

This was a most welcome break...thank you so much for the beauty of the season...

Janet Marie
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2 posted 2001-09-26 11:12 AM

Dwindling day defers to darker powers
In courting pleasing promises to all
It will change plain trees to colored flowers,
Vanity then leaves for this season's fall.
Auburn's rusted ruins to earth showers
Dry, brittle rustling passage is it's call,
Decayed remnants where once was bloom cowers
Drawn tight a widowed world's bleak prayer shawl,
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I do so enjoy when you rhyme divine...
your cadence dances across the page..
and your imagery turns the page to canvas superb portrait your have penned here poet sir

Well tomorrow holds only mystery
And who's to say what might be
But in you I found a love so strong
The sun and the moon looked on in jealousy

Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

3 posted 2001-09-26 11:16 AM

Beautiful! Thank you for giving me a taste of the colors of fall (we don't have autumn here, we have summer, summer, cool summer, summer).

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2001-09-26 11:34 AM

RSWells,
This is very well done, Congrads

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5 posted 2001-09-26 12:44 PM

You go, guy! Nice intro to fall and winter

Gentle Spirit
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6 posted 2001-09-26 01:09 PM

Very beautiful RSWells. You capture the moment well. Thank you for the beauty.

On the wings of words our spirits fly....and our souls are free.
~Me~

(I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the dance~Garth)

Mysteria

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7 posted 2001-09-27 01:34 AM

Richard your use of the seasons as your metaphor was excellent, to lead us through the recurring seasons to fall and then winter being the "final" one or death! Well done indeed, but very dark. Shoot, I guess I am in Fall! Oh well, I had a great Spring, Summer and Fall is not too bad, so I will hold my breath when Winter comes.

~Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self~ Cyril Connolly

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vandana

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8 posted 2001-09-27 10:57 AM

liked it

arthur
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9 posted 2001-09-27 11:14 AM

enjoyed it
worth revisiting in a week or two
arthur

Elizabeth

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10 posted 2001-09-27 03:43 PM

I love autumn, and here you've portrayed it so well.

God bless America, my home sweet home.

Tracey
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11 posted 2001-09-27 10:43 PM

I don't want to hear falls call. I want my summer back!!!! Great poem

If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please?

Balladeer

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12 posted 2001-09-27 11:14 PM

Excellent images, as you always provide. Since you encourage constructive critiques, allow me to point out that one of the main requirements of sonnets is that they be written in iambic...however, it is still a good poem.

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