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A Window On My World
: Seasons of Change by LisaMay


As we hunker down,

these forbidding ill winds blow

a chill in the air.

Trees on the hillside

shed their flimsy golden leaves. 

I add warmer clothes.

Another leaf falls,

adding to others piled up,

and then another.

Bags of fallen leaves

waiting to be cremated.

May they rest in peace.


 


Author Notes
Author's Note:
Here in southern New Zealand the days of autumn are shortening and becoming colder. I am spending a lot of my time at my work table, situated in a bay window that looks across a residential valley to a tree-clothed hillside. Many of the trees are deciduous; seeing the changing colours is a delight. As well as the city's botanic garden, there is a public park within walking distance of my home, so I go there to see beautiful trees as well.
Numerous lives are dropping like autumn leaves in this time of loss.

     

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