Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Fall's Garden (poem)


Springtime is lovely, so they claim
I dare not strip it off its fame
Of earth’s awakener, yet I
Have grown to find Spring rather tame

Each year it urges me to try
To turn back clocks and be the shy
And silly child I used to know
Oh no, the apple of my eye

Aren’t you, sweet Spring, and long ago
My childhood like a timid doe 
Ran hiding in the falling dusk
Away from me, its biggest foe

No, I’ll stay here until I must
Go with the changing leaves I trust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust



Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)


10 comments:

  1. Love the form.. the interlocking rhymes work so well, yet I'm still a friend of spring

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  2. Fall gardens are fabulous! Why should we go back? (though i am also grateful spring returns)

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  3. Love the cadence and rhyming verses ~ Beautifully written and I felt nostalgia ~

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  4. Beautiful, and rhyming pattern is subtle enough to not distract from its elegance.

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  5. shows you are in tune with the seaon of life - Spring can be rather tiresome and skittish though I prefer your
    "childhood like a timid doe "

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  6. Springtime is lovely, so they claim
    I dare not strip it off its fame

    Springtime begets different reactions but mostly many view greenery with awe. Great rhymings Sasha~!

    Hank

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  7. wonderful use of enjambment. I love springtime, but there is beauty in every season (I'll even begrudgingly admit that of winter...lol)

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  8. Thanks for joining us, Sasha, and I'm sorry it's taken me all this time to read and comment but I've been away.

    I do like spring, its fresh new buds and flowers, but I have to agree that it is rather tame compared to autumn. I remember coming home from school in the dark after the clocks went back and love those lines:
    'My childhood like a timid doe
    Ran hiding in the falling dusk
    Away from me, its biggest foe'
    I'll be there too, 'with the changing leaves I trust'!

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