- Non-Erotic Poetry
- So March Now Ghosts Of Autumn
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Falling leaves and lowering skies dim
Mornings bringing aching joints
A cold grip forming slow and steady
Daylight giving empty ground
Retreat from the damp night
And leave little respite during day
Thunderheads full of fury and sorrow
Draining warmth and happiness
Leaving only rain lightning and dim
Presence of summers gone past thin
Whispered shadows hazy and fleeting
A memory of what came before unclear
So march now you hollow ghosts of autumn
Haunt your windy replacements
Wail of your bright days gone past
Of your fading memory
Waning sun walled off by cloud
Solid ground thinned by rains
Happy days blotted out bleak
Gathering winds speak for them
Shriek out the pains of dead summer
A clarion call to the harbinger of winter
Uneasy in the wet and cold grave offered
Summers wait through their icy hell
For the resurrection of winters death
So march now you hollow ghosts of autumn
Leave your life for another day another year
Shamble in time to the day you will be flesh again
And laughing at the ghosts of spring anew
- COMMENTS
Angelineover 10 years agoit's a different style for you and it's very musical. I would edit it down some to tighten the poem overall but that's just my opinion. The musicality of it gives the poem an air of elegy that really works.
