Gregory Richard Barden Poet Rhyme

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falling like leaves

                      ~ for Karin ~

oh how a fair breeze of Autumn can stir
    my heart with reprieves - the redolent leaves
      remembrance of romance with you in a blur
        soft eyes in a camber of absinthe and amber
      wheaty hair spilling like corn silk to shoulders
    framing two spicy bow lips as they smoldered
falling like leaves … for you

      oh how this time lifts me back to a dream
    our ivy-clad schools - such unripened fools
  a world as our oyster, and raw it would seem
escaped to the woods - discarding our goods
  we swam on a blanket of bright leafy death
    straining in passions to fever each breath
      falling like leaves … for you

oh how the chill always kindled our flame
    pining each week for the rose of your cheek
      weekends adoring the ways that you came
        our fleshy memoirs ‘neath branches and stars
      each mutual climax much sweeter than last
    the moments exhausted like us, far too fast
falling like leaves … for you

      oh Autumn yet sings midst my sinews today
    the libertine flood still coursing my blood
  you ‘waken my core in the most vexing way
when October flies I ache for your sighs
  tho’ marrow grows icy the mem’ry remains
    chaotic obsessions through prurient pains
      someday I’ll surrender them - tears in the rain

falling like leaves for you … still falling …

                      in Deja vu.






Copyright © 2024 Wheelsong Books UK “Melancholy Moon” by Gregory Richard Barden

* This is a very rhythmic and musical form I created called ‘QARINAGE’ I hope you enjoy it. *

( photographic art created copyright-free by the author with Meta AI / Gala AI software )

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