The Rising and Falling of Trees
by Patricia Fargnoli
They rose up from the riverbank
bending their dark shapes over the water
like pillars that had been leaning too long
in the sun and wanted to rest.
And yes the river was lovely in its long
feline flowing over and around the river stones.
But the trees were splendid in their own right
shaking their beads, pasting glitter around their cheeks,
and oh how they fell, loosening their roots
swooning into the moving water,
which carried them on its back downstream,
their voices reverberating along the airways,
promising their lovers
before long they would return.
Copyright ©: Patricia Fargnoli
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Last Flower poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Robert Burns: O May, Thy Morn:
- Taking Off by Satish Verma
- Омар Хайям – И сиянье рая, и ада огни
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- Lunar Eclipse by Satish Verma
- Orlando Furioso Canto 9 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Федор Сологуб – Либава, Либава, товарная душа
- Валерий Брюсов – Дворец любви
- As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. by Walt Whitman
- The Falling Of The Leaves by William Butler Yeats
- A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Sent For A Token by William Strode
- The Portrait — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Жан де Лафонтен – Амур и Безумие
- Tiny Warrior by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
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