Trees....it's that time again...

...it's that time again in a place

called August that is not quite sure

who it is or where it wants to be

with summer that has already begun

taking on the tinge of memory again?

with fall the season of visual overload

and angst at what lies ahead?

stay with me here awhile as we ponder

this development that crept up on us

when we weren't looking that went the way

of muggy nights and steamy days when

even the birds were silent and the moon

strained toward its usual intensity

moody as it slipped in and out from behind

mists it never ordered

soon it will all change again and i'll behold

you all in your autumn splendor brief interlude

before the real fall

before the sentence ends

the period applied.


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Trees...you weep today...

Trees

                you weep today
for the passing of a friend
ancient and loyal
it stood

for what might have been
forever
cheered your birth from the soil
sheltered you from wind
and sun
then held you

let go at just the right

time
as you learned to walk
through the pages of our thoughts
and experiences
explored the process
of becoming the
thing that screams
nature
the loudest
as fodder for our poems


Long after this rain
you will weep
for the great space
left open by its passing
the vines that embraced it
lost now along the fence
frightened clinging
wondering what happened
and why they weren't told
of the sentence imposed
on their innocent

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