Autumn's Saddest Mourners Poem by Agatha Eliza

Autumn's Saddest Mourners

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I feel the autumn unfolding its tentacles
far and wide, across the land
like a hungry bird's wings encompassing
its cornered, frightened prey...



The wind brings forth the echoes
of a thunder roaring from another world
and flashes of light project
burning splashes of colours on the
blackened cheek of the sky,
revealing the troubled, and dark faces of
Autumn's saddest mourners!



The tea I drink early in the morning
is lukewarm and bittersweet,
strongly infused with some
strange joy and sheer nostalgia, while
reading those romantic poems
my grandmother used to love when
she was just about my age.



Away, on a distant tune of Chopin's, the
droplets of rain implode like
stars, crashing on my old windowpane
erasing the borders between
the 'what if', 'what was' and
'what it really is'...

Thursday, September 15, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: autumn,family,nature,rain,sadness
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Unnikrishnan E S 18 September 2016

Hi Agatha, A beautiful poem on the vagaries of seasons and their impact on human life. Other animals and plants have their biological clocks intact and get their bodies and lifestyle adjusted to seasons easily. They go into hibernation or shed their foliage. But, man has developed problems, over time. And this is a problem of man. not the seasons. The poem brings about this anguish in very vivid words: I feel the autumn unfolding its tentacles far and wide, across the land like a hungry bird's wings encompassing its cornered, frightened prey... And then, thunder roaring from another world and flashes of light project burning splashes of colours on the blackened cheek of the sky, revealing the troubled, and dark faces of Autumn's saddest mourners! Great poem. Loved reading. Congrats and 10.

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