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Rated: 13+ · Book · Nature · #1439094
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
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#992008 added September 30, 2020 at 3:07am
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Red, gold and green [233]
Red, gold and green

Green arbors of August
sag under a film of dust
(the dry-leaf rustle
and dry-throat rattle)

until change in the air
lightens their despair
as sunlight softens
and nights lengthen

while green yellows
and elks bellow
in the midst of the rut —
how gold turns to rust

and those reds we behold,
once bold,
that adorn the forest's crown
soon fade to brown

as all life bleeds
to prepare itself, a need
to cast off color
for deep sleep's pallor

perhaps to wake to light
after cold white nights
under a banquet of snow —
for inner embers glow

to hearten the hope that sings
of verdant spring
and renewal — after the breath
of autumn's death

and winter's hibernation —
that cessation
of what was once pursued,
now resting, waiting to be renewed.

© Kåre Enga [177.233] (25.september.2020)


32 irregular lines with an aabb rhyme.

For September 2020:
FORUM
Verdant Poetry Contest - On Hiatus  (E)
NATURE-themed quarterly contest.
#2000001 by Choconut


Picture for the Verdant Poetry Contest.

prompts:HIBERNATION, CHANGING, COLOURFUL, DARK NIGHTS, WOODLAND WALKS.
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