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“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile." - John Howard Bryant

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." - John Donne, The Autumnal

“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne

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A Jinjagoliath poem:
26th October 2024
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Leaves

You once were connected
You had your place
As vibrant green
The sun did face

Now tumble down
The wind she shakes
As click you land
Connection breaks

So is it true
That life revolves?
The thing we were
Rotates, dissolves

We are transformed
A panoply
Of golden hints
Of what's to be

For in the cycle
Green to rust..
Faith in the natural
Ways we must

Be strong in love.
That nothing's lost
Deception
Is the only cost

Preserve belief
Beyond this schism
Faith in the beauty
Of nature's rhythm

autumnleavingliferhyme

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