Autumn Leaves
As summer has briskly bowed and left,
The air has become crisp and moist.
Sky is clear, the wispy clouds straggling here and there!
The evening’s weak rays cut through trees, half bare
And a chilly wind playfully wings
Shaking the remaining autumn leaves
To fall awkwardly one by one with a soft hum,
Making a mosaic design on the ground
Under the trees, lies a massive pile,
Of cast off leaves the wind had felled.
Though laborious, it is fun raking them
Then jump over and toss them to the wind
See them fly about like embers from fire
How delightful watching them settle
Once more to the ground and listen
To the rustle of dead leaves under the feet
My heart beats to its joyful rhythm
And I long to float like them, weightless
Across the patch of empty ground,
Long shadows draw a series of grotesque graffiti
A lone bird atop a gnarled branch
Screeches its dismay over the change of the season
But my heart dances as I watch the leafless trees
Stretch their bare arms to the sky
And the chill of autumn sprinkles goose bumps all over
Sept. 2022
~Placed FIRST~
Fall Flavors Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Regina McIntosh
Subject Chosen- Raking Leaves
Copyright © Valsa George | Year Posted 2022
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