Leaf Scattered Poets Poem by Terence George Craddock

an absence but a year and a half
all is changed among these scattered
leaf poets friends long time left

several of my favourite leaves
from high esteemed tree top heights
seem to have fallen from tree

how leaf they are
how leaf fallen leaves are
scattered they are

wind scattered by the wind

was this the bitter winds
covid storms whipping branches
or just seasonal changes

so many leaves I knew leafed
wrote for but a year or two
will spring light birth new leaves

uncurling growing glorious
fresh green fills gap gaping spaces
past leaves fall left in season

their own autumn seasonal
fading light autumn end
time as in time all leaves

leave I also left then
but my close leaf friends
that whispered on line

to me in conversations
in times of our own choosing
have failed to return

have failed to time return

in new leaf
leaving a space
of bare branches

mourned
in my contemporary
evergreen mind


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock