A FALLING LEAF <br /> <br />In the multitude <br /> between the cacophonies <br /> of the world’s moods <br /> <br />there free falls <br /> from a maple tree <br /> with waving witnesses <br /> <br />a solitary leaf <br /> the only from the <br /> many arms of this <br /> aging forest amazon <br /> <br />an appendage dropping, <br /> descending, drifting, <br /> sailing downward <br /> <br />from its height <br /> to an umbrageous world <br /> below –––– <br /> <br />a solo flight <br /> its last and only journey <br /> with earth’s gravity <br /> to a mossy couch <br /> below –––– <br /> <br />to be transfigured <br /> into elemental structures <br /> in mother nature’s <br /> compost factory <br /> <br />architectured to be hoisted upward <br /> through subterranean corridors <br /> then erected in budded form <br /> <br />into a newly-Easter <br /> arboreal quilted aparison <br /> <br />to awaken with the <br /> luminescence of a <br /> rousing sun <br /> <br />to flutter with the melodic <br /> breezes of spring airs <br /> <br />to hear the distant <br /> drumming of an on-marching storm <br /> <br />to pitter and patter <br /> with dripping drops of rain <br /> <br />to once again be a leaf –– <br /> one with the fingernails of a tree. <br /> <br /> October 14,2006<br /><br />Ben Gieske<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-falling-leaf-2/
