Dancing Leaves
Oh! Those dancing leaves.
Those darling dancing leaves.
I watch them dangle high above, as they do their daredevil dance for me.
One by one they dangle, sway, dip, and dive.
I watch with delight as I wait down below with outstretched arms.
Today the dancing leaves are mine, those darling dancing leaves.
They are mine to hold and smell.
I watch as others come dancing down to me.
They twirl and spin to music softly playing on the wind.
I throw my arms up and twirl and sway along with them.
Together we waltz away the hours, we move as the wind’s music directs us.
In the end I am tired and like my dancing leaves I fall to the ground.
We lay there watching and waiting for more of our dancing friends to join
John Marks
Wed 8th Nov 2023 14:55
I admired this poem Tim (to answer your question whether your musings are poetry - they most certainly are - words put to measure). Your beautiful poem put me in mind of Edgar Allan Poe's story 'The Masque of the Red Death' : Poe was a famous, hardcore dancer:
“And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams--
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams!”
― Edgar Allan Poe