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In promise of the Seasons

In promise of the Seasons

 

I have returned to the cradle of my being

those places and times which formed me

Moulded me into the person I now am

the oak with acorns about to fall

surrounded by a sea of drooping nettles

morning mists which shroud the dells

as dogs race around in the twilight fields

The expectancy of autumn

its foreboding, the onsett of winter

yet summer lingers, reluctant to depart

fearful of that final curtain call

These days hold me in their captive beauty

a splendour about to be overshadowed

only to reappear, but in that interrregnum

we often lose heart and plunge into despair

Spring with new life bounces back

a pre ordained sequence of an everlasting plan

The seasons were before and are after us

we can do no more than to sit in patient trust

and wonder

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Taylor Crowshaw

Tue 11th Sep 2018 08:15

Hi Keith, I love to read as well as write poetry I was just re-reading some of my favourites.. This being one. To my horror I realised I had not commented.
So belatedly here goes.
The imagery is wonderful, we are all formed in different ways by our life experiences, our views on the world around us. Travelling back to our childhood transported by a smell, perhaps a country scene. Waiting for the inevitable... time never ceases it just rolls over us. So well described..thank you..?

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keith jeffries

Fri 24th Aug 2018 09:45

Jennifer & Big Sal,
Thank you for taking time to comment on this poem. I value your remarks.
Keith

Big Sal

Fri 24th Aug 2018 00:55

Great title and piece. Thoroughly enjoyed the imagery as well.?

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jennifer Malden

Sun 19th Aug 2018 15:50

Just beautiful! Jennifer

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keith jeffries

Sat 18th Aug 2018 20:15

MC., thank you for this as you sum up the reality of a homecoming very well indeed.
Keith

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 18th Aug 2018 17:17

Returning is a constant theme in life - and never more potent than in later years when we go back to our roots...and the familiarity that forged us and once again
gives comfort. These lines remind us of the reality.
Returning and resurgence - the great combination of creation at work - never better witnessed than in the
annual evidence provided by Mother Nature. We are apart
- yet also part of this miraculous process, its witnesses
and beneficiaries - and its guardians if we have the sense to realise it and measure up to the task.

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