Autumn ultimately unveils it all,
Basking in bold bohemian design,
Pastoral poets’ inspiration shrine -
Enlivens lavishly before the fall.
Winter ultimatum trumps with chill swing -
Impetus frozen by a frigid muse -
Sublimating into slumbering blues,
Melting away under the spell of Spring.
Spring’s ultimate pizazz wafts in the air,
Awakening the passions of pristine -
Romance’s timid touch from hues of green,
Blush to blossom under Summer’s hot stare.
Summer struts with an ultimate demand -
Party for all disciples of the sun -
Sweet sweat of dog days in the languid run,
Til Autumn takes a precedented stand.
March 24, 2023
My standard for literature,
whether romantic
or academically sobering,
and preferably some hybrid in-between,
Literature teaches me
something I had not previously known,
but somehow felt,
about myself.
Even better,
also teaching me something new
about logos life on Earth
And mythic even better,
also teaching me something long implicitly precedented
about loving life
within revolving frames
of evolution's flaming
and quieter shaming
history.
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