Air stirs with kiting reasons to believe patterns
of leafy comings and goings and betrayals,
wry as wrinkled metaphors long used and abused
as bright scriptures of god’s hand at work to compensate
for his next cruel jest of love’s seasonings and slips
of something made beautiful by loss best left let lie
as useful for later growth. If we hold on. If we gather them.
Each leaf that falls holds a name, an image, spiraling
in dance of love I have known and have mourned in leaving.
I am wont to spread my arms to gather them to me
to breathe in crisp remembrances that some things shelter
and warm us even when they can no longer hold back.
Author notes
Prompt: "Though lovers be lost love shall not."
Dylan Thomas
12 lines
jpg Red Vase- Amy Haught
In a list
A contest entry
- 24 hour contest... by poet2angels.
475 points, ended November 23, 2007, 19 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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congrats
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ty so much.
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you awe me...
congratulations on gold...not at all suprized....
Mal
Happy Thanksgiving..
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ty, Mal, I always appreciate your comments.... some things I know too well
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This is brilliant
It touches my heart and I could not choose favorite lines because I was hooked from line 1...This poem expresses the concept of the prompt so very well. Dylan Thomas would smile upon this.
Bravo!
Lynda
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How I wish not to ahve to write such, but it is part of life I struggle with...I am constantly finding another leaf somewhere. ty so much for the gold.
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"I am wont to spread my arms to gather them to me
to breathe in crisp remembrances that some things shelter
and warm us even when they can no longer hold back."
Sighhh...Exquisite penning, my Sister...One I know all too well...Good luck in Lynda's contest, Sweetie. 
Wanda
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here's your rake, I will use this one, and we shall make gret heaps of lvoely leaf hills....
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We never forget Love, it won't let us...
nor do we wish to!
Sighhh...
"Each leaf that falls holds a name, an image, spiraling
in dance of love I have known and have mourned in leaving
I am wont to spread my arms to gather them to me"
Emotionally Moving, M'Lady.
~ Nicky♥
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ty dear heart, we, the leaf-movers.
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