Autumn leaves fascinate me...I love the Maples turning the whole world into a passionate red...
Autumn Leaves
Autumn leaves,Perched on their last journey,
Fascinate me...
Trying to clutch at the last lap of life,
Turning all splendour of their existence
Into a carnivalisque-delight.
Like a lamp that burns
extremely bright
for that one last time
before it goes out of sight.
I watch them flaunt their vestments,
Green, orange, red and yellow apparel
In the autumn of their lives
Show the world whatever they have
as a last attempt at life's jubilation
Before falling off and drifting
Into oblivion;
They grow
First pale in apprehension of
a life about to go-
turning yellow,
Then realizing slowly
that this is their last chance to live their lives,
They start giving vent to their feelings-
Doing what they should have been doing
all their lives,
They blush orange with realization.
Then slowly the passion rises
To a crimson red,
And they show the whole world
their colour of scarlet fervour.
Only to get detached
One by one...
One by one
They leave their branches
And float aimlessly about
Carried hither-and-thither,
by the wind.
Then falling to the ground,
They resign to the life of oblivion
And begin to fade to a brown-black...
Dry up, and lose their juices of life
Get trampled under the feet
and slowly and gradually,
Disintegrate
Till they are no more...
But before they depart, they
Turn to a bright yellow, gold,
Orange red and crimson
Showing the world their last bit of passion
Before dying out...
Like dying at the peak of orgasm
Due to a heart attack...
Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright ©): Zoya Zaidi
Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2006-06-11 at 10:43
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