Micropoetry – Reach (8)
A solitary leaf
Falls without a sound
Descended
To reach the direst of fates
And lightly lands
With acquiescent grace
© Ann Bagnall 2015.
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A solitary leaf
Falls without a sound
Descended
To reach the direst of fates
And lightly lands
With acquiescent grace
© Ann Bagnall 2015.
‘acquiescent grace’ – love that.
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Thanks Annie – a lot of my micropoetry is derived from my larger poems, (others written for a weekly game on twitter) – this one came from one of my older poems republished on this site last year:
Acquiescent Grace
A host of leaves and flowers
Stirred and swayed
Balancing
Upon the transient breeze
Emerald leaves and buds of rosy pearl
In silken tatters
Scarlet shot with gold
A galaxy
From which was blithely shed
A fiery shower
Falling star on star
Endless whirling in the dark
A giant plane leaf
Launched on level air
Pauses to float
Swaying a moment, where
Uplifted
By the atmospheric tide
That turns it slowly
Over once in space
Floating dead, it leaves no trace
But lapses
In a smoothly dipping glide
Scooping shallow air
From side to side
In ripples that are blue
And yet are green
Swirling from heaven
And then crumbling
One solitary leaf
Without a sound
Settles upon the path
Of rain-soaked ground
Lastly, descended
To reach the direst of fates
And lightly lands
With acquiescent grace
© Ann Bagnall and AnnieB222.com, 2014.
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BRILLIANT!
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Haha! I wasn’t fishing for another nice comment!!
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No need to fish. It’s outstanding.
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I love falling leaves – they are just so beautiful. For some reason they evoke a lot of feelings for me.
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