Dark Sentiments 2015 – Day 4: Death Songs and Promises
Posted By Randy on October 4, 2015
Tableau of leaf and seed atop a Whale’s skull that was a gift to us from Hurricane Juan in the Autumn of 2003. Seeds long sent on their way, some of our Maples are sporadically dropping leaves, but the glorious canopy and its evolution to an ankle deep carpet of gold is still weeks away. (LFM photo. Photo editing by Mrs. LFM. Click the image to enbiggen.)
Death Songs and Promises
By LFM
The leaf of Autumn’s bright display
Comes bittersweet with tinge of death,
Yet shares the bough with wing-ed seed
Poised now to glide on hopeful breath.
Even as the leaf doth sing
Its death song loud in colours bold,
Upon the ground joins humble seed,
Now scarcely glimpsed amid the gold.
The mourning of a Summer lost,
The brilliance of the leaf forfends,
As drab seed speaketh whispered vow –
Renew-ed Life, not bitter ends.
Ah, so erudite and cogent.
Ah, so erudite and cogent.