| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 10/19/07 at 04:12 AM Rich, vibrant, and just one beautiful shot after another. |
| Posted by Rhiannon Jones on 10/19/07 at 03:57 PM I like the tight rhythm of this, that stretches out in the last stanza. The subtle sneaky stanza-to-stanza rhyme scheme as well. I haven't raked autumn leaves in so many years (we don't really have them down here)...this was a nostalgic glimpse back for me. Thanks! |
| Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 10/19/07 at 04:24 PM This is the perfect Fall feeling. I especially like "the orange reds and yellows
to line October's shore". Our weather this morning (a cold-snap, they called it) sent me in search, and I knew I'd find a snug place in your poetry, my garden-friend! |
| Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 10/19/07 at 04:46 PM Elegant language, poised enticingly and in rapt observance. The first "waves" is so clearly transformed "leaves" that one feels the break and waft at once! The "you" of raking and piling barrows--so it seems-- is transformed by your delightful poetic eye to sunlit multicolored visions at the edge of autumn. I am entranced.
And putting this in my favorites. |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 10/19/07 at 07:58 PM Another wonderful trip to your garden - so vivid and reminiscent of living back East with them waving in the breeze. Stately and beautiful, you've made them come alive for me Kristina.
~Chelle~ |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 10/19/07 at 07:59 PM oops, I meant the maples are stately and beautiful. ;-) |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 10/20/07 at 12:05 PM anyway you view this piece, it is a soulful opus. musical and vibrant and affecting and lending its sandblasting to the calloused senses. |
