Autumn's Apology
Every ending promises a return.
Every ending promises a return--Nature's cycle.
🍂🌾🍁🌕🍃🌱🍁🌾🍂🍂🌾🍁🌕🍃🌱🍁🌾🍂
Forgive me for the wind that strips you bare;
I am sorry for the cold and near-frost's glare;
For momentous gusts that cause your leaves to fall;
For the joy of kindling your red flare.
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I confess, I cannot stay, I must take what once bloomed;
Write soulful notes on fallen leaves, to a sad, lost tune;
I never meant to curb your laugh, just put it to sleep
Never in my hands to take, or in my arms to keep.
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My Earth, dear, in my hands I take what does endure
To return to you in time, for that, you must be sure;
Now lanterns glow and baskets fill below the light of dusk
For such signs of life renewed, your faith in life, a must.
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But now you know, that life goes round, back where it all begins;
That I don’t take, I do return, in pure kind, and not at whim
Your rich soil, it does recall, every sadness sown
But i return, in joyous form, all your trees now grown.
🍂🌾🍁🌕🍃🌱🍁🌾🍂🍂🌾🍁🌕🍃🌱🍁🌾🍂
I leave for you, my contrite appeal, and a promise to return
A final leaf, small but green, proof that things will turn
I say goodbye, with humbled heart, and quiet, calm repose;
Then white you’ll don, and then take off, and wear the green that flows.
🍂🌾🍁🌕🍃🌱🍁🌾🍂🍂🌾🍁🌕🍃🌱🍁🌾🍂
Original poem by Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin. AI tags are coincidental
How do you cope with cycles that are without your control? Do share in the comments.
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Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin
Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.
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A poem that evokes many emotions. It makes me look back on my life and compare my own feelings with yours. Very beautiful. 🙂
Autumn is my favourite season. This is so beautiful.
What a beautiful poem, why I only saw this now I don't know but I'm glad I did!
What a stunning piece, this piece really spoke to me thank you. Love your work.
This is very beautiful, Michelle! 🍂 The video is very nice, too!
Love the imagery! "...a wear the green that flows." Beautiful! 💚
Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Well-wrought, Michelle, and well-deserved kudos! To cope with the cycles of life we can only put our best foot forward, one step at a time.
Congratulations on your top story!🎉🎉🎉
This is a great read!
Congratulations on a well deserved Top Story. It spoke to me because I love nature; and the seasons speak to me, as obviously they do you, so beautifully expressed here!!
Beautiful work, Michelle! "Every ending promises a return," will stick with me. Congratulations on your top story and best of luck to you in the challenge! 💖
Wow! This is the first one of that challenge I read. A great example to lead by. Congrats, Michelle!
This is gorgeously written. Excellent piece. For me, it’s just a good deal of therapy lol. 🙂
Congrats on top story!
I don't cope lol to answer your question. 😆But poems like this help. This was absolutely beautiful, Michelle. Loved it. The descriptions were exquisite and the cadence had a bit of magic to it. Congrats on a well deserved Top Story!
Wonderful well done on Top Story ♦️♦️♦️
Such a lovely and descriptive poem, Michelle. Congratulations on the Top Story - it is much deserved!
Very beautiful! Love the flow of it. Congratulations on top story.
This was so beautiful and deep. Congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Beautiful and congrats on top story!
This is gorgeous. I suffer from SAD. I am ok with Summer, but Winter and Autumn make me feel really down. I cope by looking for things that delight me in the season, flowing autumn leaves, acorns, snow patterns, a shimmer of light through a raindrop, and poems such as yours.
This is absolutely beautiful. I love the flow and emotions. It's gorgeous!
always hope
This is absolutely marvelous, Michelle; a wonderful elegy for what's lost each year, but filled with the seeds of hope for things to be reborn. Simply magical work, beautifully worded in every stanza. :)