Copper Road
Please don’t leave, O’ burnished ridge of mine I’m not ready. Give me more gold or ruby rust, both equally valuable To me anyway And you, overripe raspberry, disguised as Sumac My heart is clotted with your intense bloody hue Linger longer I plead silently. This morning, the rising sun came piercing through the black trunks turning the dim road into copper. Glistening shards, blinding streaks, demanding my attention, and I gave it, and it awed me. You’re irresistible and you know it. Show off! Same time next year, you shout. I know…but your cruel tease of time between visits between orgies of colour that can penetrate souls - It’s too long. How else can I describe you? Dazzling deciduous forests, mile after mile, lining bogs, tracing hills, mingled with spruce, pine and cedar. Evergreen and cerulean sky; your complimentary partners, like humble undergarments beneath your jewelled cloaks. Your perfume - aahhh, that familiar scent. A memory - I’m four Penny loafers, clicking and swishing through leafy carpets, pockets heavy with shiny mahogany chestnuts for show and tell Nostrils damp, wafts of cool earth and decay, foreshadow the frigid future, that comes after goblins and ghosts have knocked on doors By All Saints Day, you’ll be gone and melancholy will settle over me like November fog blankets the bay that is missing the loons. They gathered, cried and vanished. Much like you did. I’ll have to settle for ducks now. Quacking substitutes. Hunter’s targets. Last hurrahs, Final flourishes, Bittersweet goodbyes. You’re all of these. Can you tell you are my favourite? Is it obvious how much I adore you? Oh, doomed season… Oh, Autumn.
8 Comments
10/19/2022 05:10:24 am
Wow. All this and a poet. Lovely! Thank you. xoxoxo
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Deb
10/19/2022 07:41:13 am
Thank you for reading and commenting. I'm no Mary Oliver but I do enjoy piecing them together sometimes. xo
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Margot
10/19/2022 01:25:49 pm
Lovely poem from a lovely poet. ❤️
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Deb
10/19/2022 01:27:57 pm
Thank you Margot. 😘
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Donna
10/22/2022 11:19:45 am
That was beautiful!! ❤️
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Deb
10/22/2022 11:20:25 am
Thanks Donna!
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Carla Sandrin
10/22/2022 11:31:26 am
Lovely!
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Deb
10/24/2022 09:08:27 am
Thank you Carla!
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