Autumn Crocuses Poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

Autumn Crocuses

Rating: 2.6


The meadow is poisonous but pretty in the autumn
The cows that graze there are slowly poisoned
Meadow-saffron the colour of lilac and of shadows
Under the eyes grows there your eyes are like those flowers
Mauve as their shadows and mauve as this autumn
And for your eyes' sake my life is slowly poisoned

Children from school come with their commotion
Dressed in smocks and playing the mouth-organ
Picking autumn crocuses which are like their mothers
Daughters of their daughters and the colour of your eyelids
Which flutter like flowers in the mad breeze blown

The cowherd sings softly to himself all alone
While slow moving lowing the cows leave behind them
Forever this great meadow ill flowered by autumn

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dr Dillip K Swain 30 January 2022

Poisonous meadow is pretty in autumn.... magnificent opening and beautiful ending.

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