Re: [ZESTPoets] Autumn Civilizes Us

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:09:42 -0700

Oh yes, I liked this one very much. I like the way it becomes a love poem in the most subtle yet sudden way.
 
Here's one I wrote two years ago on a visit to UK: 'He' was the gardener from next door, our oracle on weather and plants.

 

EXPECTING FROST

  

Expect frost, he said, and by daybreak

The first frost of autumn

Edged every leaf, laid a veil

Over summer green. The trees,

Already changing colour, relaxed,

Let go their leaves: on that day

The ground shimmered with them,

The last flicker of the flame

Blazing red and yellow,

The bright death of summer.

 

Sorry I was to see the summer go,

Yet not sorry: I like the trees bare,

Their stark skeletons more elegant

Than summer’s rampant green,

More beautiful. I prefer it so.

 
Jane Bhandari

Albert Krishna Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Autumn Civilizes Us

by Amardeep Singh
http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2005/09/autumn-civilizes-us.html

Autumn civilizes us
Summer's bare arms are sheathed
and the ritual of the cooling air sends us inside
to make schoolwork with sober chalkmarks

And I might say, drily,
"Autumn's softening light adds texture and shadow
to the still-yellow day."

Now analyze the poem.
But my students' eyes are elsehwere, on Autumn,
with its open space and windows
and living, biting insects
all still with us when we talk

And supposedly the famous leaves will don unsober brights
all too soon. But that bomb of color comes too late for Autumn,
verging on the foreshadowed winter.
(Screw the Fall! I'd rather not watch)
I prefer the daylight today, and the twittering, still-green trees,
and you, of course, and the texture of your sweater:
another Autumn, holding in the still-warm air.

 

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