Sunshine on gilded leaves <br />Sparkling bright and clear <br />Tips of branches poke through <br />To find the last of summers days <br /> <br />Gold turns to crimson and scarlet <br />Rich rubies dazzling our eyes <br />Floating down to earth again <br />Like flames through the air <br /> <br />Crushed and broken they lay <br />Upon the forest floor in drifts <br />Played in by children laughing <br />Thrown back into mid-air <br /> <br />A scattering of pleasure flows <br />Through the skies and away<br /><br />Fiona Davidson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gilded-leaves/
