Monday, 3 December 2012

AUTUMN LEAVES

 
 

Autumn Leaves

The leaves are falling now
And the very souls of the trees
Lie scattered at their own feet
In a hundred sultry shades of brown and gold.
Decay commences its inexorable task,
Creating scents, tobacco-rich, of mouldering earth,
Disturbing odours of mortality
And emanations of another passing year.
But here is fecund fuel for the foraging worms
Whose treasure the Spring spade will unearth
Or which will, in its turn,
Be food for the glorious buds to come.
 


 

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