A Poem: Leaf
Thu, Mar 26th 2009, 10:15
David Morley at Warwick Univeristy has done some great podcasts for writers. I've just been watching his one about poetry and written a poem as a result. Here it is. It's called Leaf
Leaf
Broad leaf
On a sea of breezes
Pitched against brothers
Hitched and tugged and torn
Lime, then grass, then ocean green
Brushing ropy veins upon xylem thorn.
Spring is sudden with unfurling budding
Summer follows, the spectrum flapping
Autumn then, full of sail and swash.
At last the mast is splitting, giving.
A pyre smokes auburn into ash.
Then the lonely season
The last
Before
Leaf.
