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
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- The Lovely Maïd Ov Elwell Meäd by William Barnes
- Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A Gemini’s Hurt by Stephen Allen
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Quest for Thee by Vanessa Perkins
- Scribbles by Suchi Gaur
- The Last Leap
- Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River by Tu Fu
- The Gardener XLIV: Reverend Sir, Forgive by Rabindranath Tagore
- Hawk poem – Andrew Demcak poems | Poems and Poetry
- Tale of the Pope and of His Workman Balda
- Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
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