via Daily Prompt:
I figured since Fall starts today, it would be a good day to start thinking about leaves. The prompt for today was the one word Leaf so this worked out very well. Enjoy my personification of the insignificant leaf!
To Be a Leaf
Oh… to be a leaf, t’would be a delight
High in a tree on a warm summer’s night
Poking my head out the door
Warm seduction of spring calls me fore
Coming out half dressed in the morning light
A red bathing beauty all shiny and bright
Stretching extending my fingers unfurl
Semi-frosty nights will nip at the curl
Turning green without envy my hands open wide
No jealousy here I’m filled with pride
Ever expanding to the size of a hand
Not to be shaken by woman or man
Blown in the wind by breeze and ‘cane
Hands lifted in praise then baptized by rain
Waving high over lovers’ joy without end
Old folks and children consider me their friend
Enduring the heat of hot summer’s blast
Knowing all too soon it will be past
Blushing with color… yellow, orange, and red
My crowning glory before I land with the dead
Photographed by families, travelers, and friends
A model’s envy we all join hands
Waving our boughs and then were gone
Floating to the earth but I’m not alone
Lying with friends we await our fate
Raked in piles while the children wait
Jumping and squealing they all roll and tumble
All in a pile as big brothers grumble
Bagged and stacked on the curb for recycling
Back to the garden it’s not really frightening.
Or perhaps simply falling staying were we lite
Putting roots to bed for the long winter’s night
