A POET'S DREAM FELT DEEP IN BONES

“I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.”

 

- River Phoenix

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTkUplF5VIE

AUTUMN LEAVES - Eva Cassidy & the London Symphony Orchestra

 

Now that Summer takes it's leave

and dragonflies fly off to places where I've never been

all that remains are faded remnants; leaves and weaves

of the empty spaces held fast between my dreams

 

The Autumn air smells cool and sweet

with rotten windfall apples and fruit

fly-blown and maggoty at my feet

intoxicating the air; stuck with prickly thistly hirsute

 

My eyes are drawn to narrow slits

peering between my lashes

the sentinels of pegs are pits

burned and coal-like; ombred ashes

 

The golden orb web spider's lacework

is spun and hanging out to dry

warm September sun a simmering perk

of the shimmering dream catcher that caught my eye

 

Sombre hues and orbs of light

fill the air with tangible tones

feelings are high; moods delight

a poet's dream felt deep in bones

 

Tread gently on the fallen leaves

make your footprint light

enrich the Earth will all it needs

go with the flow; embrace the endless night

 

For after Autumn, Winter follows

and the land falls asleep and hibernates

but Spring will come; fill up the hollows

and Summer will come to warm terracotta slates

 

The stillness of the evening; the peace and quiet

the quickening mood when Summer visitors flee

is felt very deeply in the fading riot

of flowers beneath the weeping willow tree

 

I shed not a tear at Summer's end

for every time comes and goes with reason

and I am a chameleon that twists and bends

and acclimatises to every season.

 

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