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Open Poetry #20

The last Oak Leaf

Gemini
Senior Member

since 1999-12-15

Posts 1203
Wisconsin, USA

0 posted 2002-05-06 07:34 PM

I went for a walk today and felt the suns warmth of spring.
My eyes focused in on the last old krinkled oak leaf.
Still hanging on the tree from last fall.
It weathered through a winters season.
And clung desperately in the wind.
Don't you know it's not your time to hang on any longer, I wondered?
It's time to let go and allow the new leaves of spring to unfold.
Life is like that.
How desperate I want to hold on to the dream of a lost love.
Holding on and not letting go.
Never allowing room in my heart to grow.
Love is like that.
It's time to let go.
Time to live and grow.
So, let the last leaf of fall be taken by the blowing wind.
Free to return to the earth again.
Let it nurture the tree anew.
Let lifes' heart renew through spring again.

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Gemini - I'm going to move this on over to Open Poetry, as it is a poem, I think, and will recieve the attention it deserves there.

Christopher

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[This message has been edited by Christopher (05-07-2002 01:01 PM).]

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2002-05-07 05:19 AM

Gemini,
what a lovely picture of holding on against all odds.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

Gemini
Senior Member

since 1999-12-15

Posts 1203
Wisconsin, USA

2 posted 2002-05-07 07:01 PM

Thank you Kethry, it was sweet of you to stop by and read and respond.

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