Life is Poetry Waiting To Be Tasted Day 7: feeling

Writer's Digest PAD Chapbook Challenge- day 7

Something about a leafless tree

Kindles a kind of eulogy

In rustling leaves beneath my feet

Where laughter and lament compete

Something about trees, gray and bleak

With no leaf left for winds to tweak

Rouses a rolling sea-like surge

Within, akin to funeral dirge

Something about the quietude

Of woodlands, lusterless and nude

Evokes a sweeping, weeping lay

For what no hand can hold at bay

Something about the docile pose

Of trees bereft of lovely clothes/shows

Yet standing tall, ignites a rite

Of admiration and delight

Always November’s leafless tree

Erupts a tender eulogy

For the depiction of life’s play

And how each season has its way

Janet Martin

Dear Lucy...

I try to touch you as if Time

Could rewind yester-year

But instead of your warmth I find

The shimmer of a tear

But, as I reach for you, somehow

In the missing of you

I feel the loveliness of Now

Running my bearing through

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