A blog about anything and everything…
A leaf
Engine of photosynthesis
that powers a tree
Turning red in Autumn
filled with anti-freeze
the tree sucks back before the leaf falls
Plucked before this happens
the tree would die
in Winter frost
That is the science
of Fall colour
But not the beauty…
© Andrew Wilson, 2023
Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Laura Bloomsbury in Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft challenges us to Cherish the Cherita…
Time has flown from May to September
the Winter of my days heralded by Autumn
no Indian summer like some I remember
but odd flashes of heat returned
in the rollercoaster from May to September
floods, fires, heatwaves what a year it’s been
a metaphor for my own life’s glowing ember,
an ember stolen from the gods wrapped in a leaf
and whose life is not by fickle fate encumbered
he chained to a rock in punishment for gifting man
we tortured or triumphant from May to September.
Written in response to Melissa Lemay in Poetics over at dVerse Poets Pub.
© Andrew Wilson, 2023