A Leaf Smiles


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It fits somehow
that leaves fall
in the wake of tears
leaving behind what they have known

They smile as they touch the earth
grace the soil
with joy.


copyright/all rights reserved Audrey Howitt 2015



my words: joy, grace, abandonment, smile, leaves, tears

Posted for D'verse on it's fourth anniversary! Congratulations Poets!

Comments

  1. How very beautiful. I feel a huge kinship with this, with you.

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  2. And then give their lives for the next generation.
    Dying to live - and so on.

    Nicely done audrey.

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  3. Love the ending lines - grace the soil with joy ~

    Cheers Audrey !!!!

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  4. Gorgeous poem! Loved the closing lines :D
    Good to see you again Audrey :D

    Lots of love,
    Sanaa

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  5. A lovely & haunting message attached with this one, for perhaps, we hope that Gold/Nature/the Universe has a plan; yet I still wonder about mosquitos.

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  6. That is such a joyful poem, thank you, Audrey, for giving us a new way of thinking about falling leaves. Not melancholy but gracing the soil with joy. Just perfect!

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  7. A gorgeous poem, Audrey, and a wonderful image to go with it :)

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  8. Beautiful. It's amazing you could share so much about yourself in such a short poem. But, I think your heart comes through here so well.

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  9. "They smile as they touch the earth
    grace the soil
    with joy."

    I think your poem says a great deal about how we should live and die, letting go of sorrow and embracing joy, up until the very last brush sweep of leaf against ground.

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  10. Gorgeous and so touches me - they smile as they touch the earth...." amazing stanza.

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  11. the new life they bring makes me joyful as well... a circle of becoming and ending and in the ending pave the way for what comes next

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  12. Flow of LEAVES are drips of TEARS
    FEARS now spend.. where breeze DROP
    go.. oh.. CYCLE of SADNESS
    endless death.. living
    life.. best leaf
    near..:)

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  13. So, beautiful and philosophical, we too will leave this earth one day.

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  14. Audrey - this is perfect and leaves me thinking: Ah, if we could all die this way.

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  15. fall is a joy specially when it has a purpose...so serene and beautiful....

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  16. The circle of life, put in a lovely way.

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  17. very fine words here

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  18. This is beautiful. Also, I just notice in your mini-bio you refer to yourself as "a recovering attorney." I said that in my bio, too! Congrats on your recovery. Peace, Linda

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  19. I love this thought....lovely!

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  20. Your words and image are simply gorgeous!

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  21. There's a beautiful delicacy to these words ... the kind of piece that gently tumbles and floats round the edges of one's consciousness and confers a lovely calm.

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  22. "grace the soil with joy"---oh how I love that line.....it touches the heart so powerfully.

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  23. So delicate and beautiful. I loved it.

    Greetings from London.

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