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10/11/2024 for Autumn Leaves Poetry Contest sponsored by Jcb Brul

I'm old, almost blind. I see the grey shades of nothing as I wait for the end. A lilting melody sometimes reminds me of the colors of Autumn leaves: the yellow sun which shone on us, golden hair curling and cascading down her breast, a fireplace of orange flames flickering like teasing fingers and ardent tongues, and the colors growing deeper, and her final words, and the crimson blood that spilled and bled, as the sky turned black forever, and everything below was grey, except a cold bone white moon and skeletons of leafless trees, until, a lilting melody reminds me of the colors of Autumn leaves.

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Date: 10/31/2024 12:16:00 PM
Congratulations on your winning work in this contest. Way to go. Creative lines penned. Sara K
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David Crandall
Date: 10/31/2024 4:38:00 PM
Thanks Sara!
Date: 10/25/2024 10:09:00 AM
Wow Dave. I was thinking this a rather sad write until you turned it at the end with your lilting melody. Congratulations! :)
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David Crandall
Date: 10/25/2024 10:17:00 AM
Thanks elle! Hopefully, it wasn't too little, too late, for saving this dismal affair - lol.
Date: 10/11/2024 6:22:00 PM
Sometimes the colorful leaves are the only exciting view in autumn. Everything looks so dead. You've captured the season in your poem.
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David Crandall
Date: 10/25/2024 10:17:00 AM
Thanks Hilda!

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