* A Maple Leaf Poem by Deva De Silva

* A Maple Leaf

Rating: 3.0


An autumn maple leaf
Red, orange, and yellow streaked
Half emerged in grey waters
Enclosed in mossy green

Tell-telling of living beings
Flourishing deep underneath
Air bubbles peaking atop
Rupture in greeting

The force of their journey
Rippling in flawless rings
Shoot fireworks around the leaf
Yet, being mindful of its peace

The sky reflects on grey waters
Pebbled basin echoes in green
Surrounded by bronze pennies
Glowing in the sun beam

An old bark of a tree
Floats hovering within reach
Ferns shooting from it straining
To caress the maple leaf

Rest in peace
Weary maple leaf
In a wishing well
Filled with human dreams!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sameer Ahmed 26 June 2009

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf presents as a flower and the way you have interplayed with the whole imagery relating a maple leaf with a human dream in the end is splendid and everytime when we tear a leaf off a calender it happens to be an insignia of new ideas and thoughts for us and one should let his or her life dance over the edges of such a beautiful maple leaf like a dew drop.......

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Sreelekha Premjit 21 January 2009

I loved this piece..what a beautiful picturisation.! ! ! ! ! ! .

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Troy Clark 20 January 2009

Wow...Very impressive, that made me look like a poser

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