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Open Poetry #29

The Last Leaf

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2003-10-12 09:39 AM

Branch scribbles
On impending winter skies...
.
Parent twigs with digit buds
Hold promise tightly bound
By cellulose intersects
Of fiber knuckles, raised
On wooden wrists.
Far from now, in warming spring
They will unveil their children leaves,
Like unfurled finger tips.
.
Most children, of green season
Have left to play in heaps
Their clothing changing,
Verdant to scarlet, then brown.
But high above fly's one last flag
A single crimson star that shines,
Below an azure, autumn sky.
*
I Implore the north-wind
Beg it, lose its petal hold and
Send it pin-wheel-merry down;
To join its former,
(Dressed in fire)
Siblings, on the ground.
.
end

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2003-10-12 09:49 AM

Ice~
This is just about as lovely as they come !

Dynamic imagery~
Greatly enjoyed the read~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2003-10-12 10:18 AM

ice....vibrant and alive...a wonderful poem!

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2003-10-12 10:25 AM

ice
One of your best. Enjoyed.

Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

4 posted 2003-10-12 10:33 AM

ice, you're not just a writer, you're one of those rare breed poets who take a blank canvas and paint it with thought!!! Fantastic write, and much enjoyed as I sit here and watch the leaves fall...~S~

Accept these small gifts from my gypsy heart ~S~

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