Spring Leaves Poem by Bryan Taplits

They snuggled together as if to get warm
The evening Spring bringing out their ephemeral glee,
The limbs of each tree jiggled with windy delight-
Waving their leaves-I thought-wholly at me.
The dizzy descent of those leaves which fell from above
And uniting with their peers now below,
Each spinning and tumbling as they hit the ground,
Hugging one another…. But that was long ago.
A shame it is decrepitude
The leaves once like jewels,
Jubilant,
Then came fell Fall
turning the crackling leaves-each one brown now-
Once verdant leaves no longer extant.
Like soldiers each leaf marched onward towards its time-
Gallants,
in this last Season, marching to their doom,
Each coming, then going-they eventually fled-
Towards their inevitable and eventual tomb.
And now the trees have to wait again
For its family to regroup without fear,
To parlay it grand fate-and not to be late
For last Season is no longer here.