- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Her Rouge: an Autumn Tree Poem
Note: You can change font size, font face, and turn on dark mode by clicking the "A" icon tab in the Story Info Box.
You can temporarily switch back to a Classic Literotica® experience during our ongoing public Beta testing. Please consider leaving feedback on issues you experience or suggest improvements.
Click here
Blazing, bursting, rendering ruin,
brittling leaf-fingers death-bloom
Autumn’s rustling rouge,
exsanguinating
Scarlet fading to copper,
faltering ferocity,
lastly leafing whisper,
Extinguished
Shimmying crisp crimson petticoats
blushing coy cloak,
rooted, obdurate
amidst
peridot, sage, and celadon abundance
their embrace yet vibrant
still verdant
Kaleidoscopic collision
Darkening, dank earth-groan
bleak bone-chill exhale
muted
subdued
solemn
Winter's inexorable summoning
Stripping now naked her tremulant limbs,
skeletal, stifled
her silvery sepulchral trunks
austere,
unyielding,
grounded,
Deadened,
Awaiting
Spring's livening breath
- COMMENTS
Maydaypilotover 1 year agoBreathtaking. The beauty and emotions of Fall. Final flames of color before the endless dark and a memory-dream of Spring.
chthonicjourneysover 1 year agoBest use of "livening" in a hundred years. I'm quite serious about the time specificity since 1922 was the Annus Mirabilis of modern literature and a Francis Brett Young (who along with Robert Graves and Vita Sackville West would publish in the Georgian anthology) wrote:
That mingled wrack No livening sun shall visit till the crust Of earth be riven, or this rolling planet Reel on its axis...
On second thought your use is better. Robert Graves would have thought you were a Goddess.
"Muted,
subdued
solemn"
captures the breath and and sound and frosting pull of
Winter's inexorable summoning.
You take me through the heart and guts of the seasons earthly singing, presenting rather than describing. You are gifted, subtle, and bring language alive as something that doesn't just describe but performs. I look forward to your next post.
Paul4playover 1 year agoYou bring nature to life with your excellent vocabulary and imagery.
A very intimate poem……
Anonymousover 1 year agoNicely done with excellent vocabulary. I enjoy this time of year, and you have given me new words to ponder as I gaze at nature's changes.
