Poems: Silhouette

 

Silhouette

My leaves have fallen

One

By

One

In the wind

They have flown away

Floating

Swirling

In the autumn

After a lush year

I was so full

So plump with green

My shade was 

Perfect

Cool on

Burning days

And then I was 

Red

Perfect

Brilliance on every leaf

Bright and even shocking

In my beauty

As the sun dimmed

My red turned

Less resplendent

Until the first frost

Days to weeks

Red to brown

Gone

Taken across the hills

Now I am 

Bare

No shade or 

Crimson sequins

Bare arms stretch

Beauty gone or

Is it just

Different

In the winter dusk

A silhouette left

Each edge revealed

For what it is

Always there

Beneath the 

Lush and the red

Strong, firm, unwavering

When the winds came 

The frost circled and I let go of

Expectations and giving

And stood tall

My branches bold

I invited a rosy sky to 

Come and fill in the 

Empty spaces 

To show my 

Silhouette

Strong firm 

Standing tall in

Winter.

photo credit: Katrin from Pixabay

Poetry: Frost

 I took a lovely writing course called Winter Writing Sanctuary by Beth Kempton. Her Calm Christmas podcast was the perfect relaxing listening I needed to help me get into the Christmas mood so I checked out her free course for the week in between Christmas and New Years. The next few posts I'll share the poems I wrote.

Frost

Walking down the gravel path

Sun warming my face, my hair

Air as I exhale turning to a soft fog in the

Cold

Shoulders relaxing, weight lifting

Legs stretching forward

Breathing

Beauty

Fields

Strands of green winter wheat

Growing even in the 

Cold

Morning

Frost melting the tips of

White outlined strands

Frozen

In the wind

Frost

Shining

Unexpected

Beauty lifting weight of

Grief, life, one thing after another

Sun

Peeking up, rising over the fields

Opening my 

Gaze to find

Unexpected

Beauty even on a brown stalk of feathered grass from the

Season gone by

Days of heat and rain now

Cold

Clear

Sparkling

Frost