This new poetry came to me over several recent wanderings through the Autumn forests here on the Salish Sea. This has been a particularly brilliant season for fall foliage due to our new climate. The blessing of that curse has been these gorgeous displays as the earth prepares for the little sleep of Winter. Enjoy.
Fire of Death – Spark of Life
Fire hued trees of Autumn
Blaze their final
rapturous radiant display
Let go their resplendent leaves.
Fire of death falling, dancing, drifting
Into the pulsing embrace of the welcoming earth
Painting their rain glistened feet
With the blood fire
palate of multi-colored leaves
While beneath that glistening fire
potent, fecund, pulsing
The spark of life is reborn.
2019 ~ by Wakil David Matthews