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Autumn's Last Leaf

by Ruth O'Reilly

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Today's poem is brought to you by the letter F!

 

 

Hanging on in there

From green to golden red

Delicately fixed

By an axil thread

Then freed of

This fusion

By a forceful breeze

Moment  arrived

To flee from

It's tree

Fluttering past

Admiring glances

The final show

So now it 

Dances

Then falls to

The ground

Having proved

All it's worth

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Monday 23rd September 2019 1:31 pm

Autumn Dance   Seasons   nature poetry

Autumn Dance

by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

 





When J. Otis Powell! and Autumn Compton began their collaborative pieces, I was mildly unconvinced. Were Autumn’s shimmies something for a spoken word show? J. Otis’s playful accompanying piece, about the dance of autumn/Autumn was my assurance that once again, there were different ways for spoken word to be collaborative and playful, and then Autumn followed with her ow...

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Sunday 6th November 2011 10:31 pm

Autumn Dance   A Being In Motion   the Boogaloo   finger popping   conjuring   float-a-come

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