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  >> Static Item >> Poetry >> Romance/Love >> ID #1504732  |   Show DetailsPrinter Friendly Page Tell A Friend
The Seasons of the Geese
Absent Love - allegory with symbolism.
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                                       The Snow cracked under my cars weight
                                                 As I pulled in front of the house.
                                                 I sat motionless … hard to rouse
                                       As I sat thinking in debate
                                       Of what transpired with my fate-
                                       My fate dressed for misfortune’s date.

                                       No not great- a fate that had died
                                                 In debate of the reasons why.
                                                 Sitting this side of the good-bye
                                       Where pain and confusion collide
                                       And where honesty was denied,
                                       The place in which I sat to hide.

                                       In the dusk, I heard geese in flight
                                                 Heading toward the field nearby.
                                                 A late winter and soon they fly
                                       But for now they feed for the night
                                       And will leave with the morning light,
                                       The season over like the plight.

                                       The scents of spring blew in the air.
                                                 The snow would soon melt in the yard;
                                                 And I sat still wounded and scarred
                                       On my small porch above the square.
                                       Sitting and thinking as I stare
                                       Into nothing that I’m aware.

                                       The honk I heard was not a car
                                                 But the call of returning geese.
                                                 Thinking perhaps, they would bring peace,
                                       Carrying it with them from afar.
                                       I sat wondering where they are,
                                       Those that carved the non-healing scar.

                                       The spring passed in tortuous flash--
                                                 Strange- slow but fast, it didn’t last.
                                                 Now the snow moves onto the vast
                                       Sheets of green covered in white rash
                                       And I’m reminded of the flash
                                       That turned man, cinder, into ash.

                                       And as I think, I hear the sound
                                                 Of The departing geese- the calls,
                                                 The honks that formed my prison walls-
                                       Walls guarded by those southern bound
                                       Another season- no rebound,
                                       Confused … confused, trapped in confound.

                                       The geese in season come and go
                                                 And they scratch their time in my mind,
                                                 On the walls that I hide behind,
                                       Walls that are buried under snow.
                                       I think and think, wanting to know-
                                       Why in snow does the moss grow?

                                       The lifting frost turns moss to mold
                                                 And in the mold grows and old tree
                                                 Fertilized by geese and by me.
                                       And on the tree grow leaves of gold
                                       Out of my reach- never to hold,
                                       they turn hot summer days to cold.

                                       To take flight- for I am a goose,
                                                 The fool now bound without his wings
                                                 Thinking of golden leaves and things.
                                       The things that will never let loose
                                       Of my life without the excuse
                                       To remove my head from its noose.

                                       Hanging in the tree of gold leaf,
                                                 Tied to the branch where the geese fly,
                                                 And they glance at me- hear my cry.
                                       I hang from the prison of grief
                                       Grief I have over disbelief
                                       Of the seasons without relief.

                                       From north to south, they fly the lane
                                                 And pass me by in the season-
                                                 In my season without reason,
                                       Back and forth, they fly through the rain
                                       While the old tree holds me by chain
                                       Woven of golden leaf and pain.




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