Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Fall Magic
By Don Iannone

The glorious turning fall leaves
torture my sensibilities
with candy-sweet pleasure.
They leave me gasping,
like a diver submerged too long,
beholding the magical coral reef below.
They rip my heart out,
which goes chasing after whispering butterflies,
whose wings brush away lingering clouds.
And I thought early spring wildflowers
were hard to say goodbye to.

10 comments:

  1. Yeah... almost unbearably beautiful, huh?

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  2. Beautiful Don!
    I could see the gorgeous colors through your poem!
    We mostly get shades of yellow here.

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  3. Anonymous12:44 PM

    Yeah, it's very beautiful. Nature is very wondrous.

    And say that it all starts with a tiny seed, even a human being, albeit that you in that domain also need a tiny eggy luckily. :-)

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  4. Beauty that hurts :-)

    Humanity lover
    Nature lover
    Humanity Giver
    Nature Giver - THATS YOU

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  5. you're really inspired by the fall, aren't you, don? fabulous!

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  6. Bless you Don...The nature are true testemony on how our creator have created the world

    As you stare into nature you find so much beauty and your words had added that beauty that had lyed forgotten with our bussy life

    Thanks

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  7. Don. Beautiful poem. the leaves do look beautiful , out here not a lot of rust or deep orange but still beautiful.

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  9. Thanks to all of you for your wonderful comments--they too are poems in the direction of changing leaves. Enjoy the season...it changes us.

    Yes Dumbdodi...beauty that hurts!

    Polona...deeply so inspired. Yes!

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  10. i can only echo what has been said
    beauty that hurts
    i have been reduced (or elevated)
    to tears by landscapes
    and the sight of eagles
    enjoyed this poem a lot

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