wind, migrating from other climes,
bruising itself back-handed against
my windowpane, reminding me of rain
and easy breathing and the bliss and
vigor of shorter days, the hint of chill
and autumn promises in one dry leaf
blithely flying in, coming to rest
© 2017, poem and photograph, Jamie Dedes, All rights reserved
WEDNESDAY WRITING PROMPT
I wrote that poem last year on a lovely day with the promise of fall in the air and the reminder of how much I love autumn and rainy weather, which don’t come together here. Nonetheless, both are energizing.
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Good responses all and I love your take on Autumn, which although cold, is one of my favorite times of the year. Here is my response at https://reneejustturtleflight.com/2017/07/10/leafy-boughs-of-finery. Thank You!
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Yikes, no! (Re Autumn.) Not yet!!!!!! k.
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🙂
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We are just really starting summer here!
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Here too but it is already much to hot fir me, so I am dreaming …..
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Enjoy!
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This is perfect for where my mind has been meandering in quiet moments.
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Third response:
Goose Summer
When a plump late November goose
down day, warm and dry,
becomes over years
a filmy substance
a ballooned thread,
fly fish cast into a void,
a winter veil
nets your face
in the garden
or down the lane,
dew bling breath
in stubbled glazed fields,
a warm murmured spell of spiders
among the ice.
A strange movement
of language from
goose summer
to gossamer,
as if it has lost weight,
a cloud into contrail,
under plumage,
thinned with the years,
beggared
into one word,
to soft filaments,
blown on a breeze,
the decomposed dead,
spider thread.
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My second response:
An Abundance
brought for the winter
down from Summer’s high warmth.
Abundance stored as welcome wealth
rests ready for the darkening.
Brought from hedgerows,
woods an abundance of wild damsons,
sloes, rosehips, elderberries,
blackberries, hawthorn berries.
Fruit is the seed carrier.
What is this ghost of a leaf?
Where is the pattern it makes?
How does the pattern of a leaf
become a ghost of its tree?
It is the season of the open door.
It is the reason of half day of light.
It is the reason of half day of dark .
We stand between days, colder,
on that eve of halves
when we go disguised
from old ghosts, new ghosts
cold door to warm door
in hope of gifts and a smile.
The Bearded Nut In A Hat
Soon the wise bearded ones with hats
and saw-toothed hands will fall
for us to collect their wisdom
in woven baskets.
Filbert or cobnut,
crack the hard exterior,
strip the paper thin skin,
nosh on the rich, sweet
nutmeat of wisdom,
that is head, heart
and baby inside the womb.
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Hi Jamie,
Here is my first response
My Regreened Trees
Leaves on a tree wear a green mask.
Autumn as they die the mask falls
And we see their true self
Red, yellow or orange
Without sunlight
a tree can no longer mask a leaf.
When it is too cold leaves turn brown.
When a leaf dies we see it’s true self.
The tree takes water from the graves
Replenishes tree
Replenishes with memory in water
The tree is the dead
Regreened leaves applaud life
The regreened leaf is a hand
Reattached to a limb
Tree feeds the hands of its canopy
Hears their clapping
Shaking
I hear the special hand clap
of my late mother in the canopy
Of the applauding trees
And my hands want to clap too.
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My second response, Jamie.
::sweet oak::
irregular, you came, your best clothes
shining.
never mind. the first tune hit the mind,
patterns and mathematics.
the kindness that is, mixes
with dampened autumn air, and your woodsmoke.
sweet oak.
all that there is. here.
sbm.
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Thanks Jamie ~ my first response
:: falling days ::
songs come via friends,
the books we read,
the place we breathe,
songs of the fading,of life
**
the words hit our hearts,
and sink in to stay, to pledge
another stage set,
small life
**
driving the land, the songs,
carry us along, to our place,
the constant places,
we think don’t change,
**
the song of love, spinning,
dizzying, head and mind,
words of the books,
black and white
**
so the falling days,
end today, winter waits,
and the songs, and words,
tunes are all to warm us,
and hold us safe
sbm
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