these late autumn days <br />leaves fall like poems <br />green as new thoughts <br />yellow as wisdom <br />red as late summer love <br />brown as old speech <br />dry as the past <br /> <br />these late autumn days <br />old poets <br />look out at coming winter snowclouds <br />but hope like trees might hope, unknowing, <br />for a miracle of rebirth <br />beyond their dry boughs' reach <br />of words <br /> <br />new buds <br />green as <br />new songs<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0103-these-late-autumn-days/
