Fallen Leaves
Its end of autumn!
Fall in most winter land!
Deciduous trees –
Ash, Birch, Poplar, Walnut, Russian-Olives
Oak,
Shed leaves sealing twig tips in fear
For up coming cold, storm and snowy winter!
Saying goodbye to coloured family in grief
Hoping a joyous reunion during next spring!
People are usually fed up
To see sudden leaves pile ups
Over their dear lawn, garden and shrubs
Blow them away with noisy leaf blower!
I am still old fashioned extra-mundane
Enjoy raking enormous volume for days
Shed from endangered poetic Gary Oak trees
Looking at them and listening to their stories!
Rolling through the lawn
They move along driveway down hill
Singing their tales of spring, summer and fall
Most sweet reminiscences after all!
Author: Deepak Sarkar,