After everyone is back at work and the leftovers are gone . .
You try to be grateful for just the sun on your shoulders and try to remember spring.
And hope that everyone you love - knows it . . . .
November makes it all seem more important.
November
Leave us something of yourself,
sweet trees, indifferent bees,
spiders wrapping up a summer’s job,
now listless in the chilly
breeze.
Leave us something of yourself.
Do not forget these eyes that
traced
your dewy webs and pollened
toes
and watched you love the sky’s
bright face
with fingertips that airily
rose
to brush the clouds with leafy
lace.
Leave us here believing
in the hills aglow, again,
and in a churning freshet
searching
for what it cannot know,
but then, again,
knows.
It is this season’s yearnings
that foretell Spring’s bright
returnings.
Catherine Wilson
13 comments:
Look at all that green grass...!
Oh bless your heart, Rev. Paul
You remind me to be grateful for the things we take for granted. . .
now you've got me cryn' . . .
Thank you.
PS . .
Of course . it helps that i'm also watching Ashley's return in Gone With the Wind :)
Catherine Wilson, amazing poet! And what is that guy doing out this time of year i wonder.....
Marianne . . .
I'll tell her you said so :-D
Thank you .
As for Mr. Groundhog . . .he actually may be slumbering under the deck. The pix is two weeks old. His lonely posture was a very apt metaphor for my post-holiday mood.
All better now :)
Nice poem but indifferent bees really stands out for me.I think I've come across a few of those.
Larry. Good man. It is so pleasing to have you pick a phrase from my poem that somehow connected.
Like you . . I found the linking of those two words really worked. To hear you affirm my sense of that . . . well . . Thank you so much :)
When I read your words, I get lost in them. Wow Cathy.
Sweet May. A poet loves to hear that nice people explored their attempts at lassoing the mystery, mayhem and joy of life . . . and emerged dazed . . . but happily unscathed :)
You are dear.
Indeed! And I absolutely loved your November Light photos...:)
Oh my gosh! Troutbirder . .
Thank you so much for dropping by and leaving a smile.
I missed your comment as . . well . . things have been a little crazed.
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