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LEAVES

Submitted by joshua mertz on August 29, 2015

Leaves fallen
Dry memories
Crisp with the autumnal scent
Of the good times
Lost in the debris
Of discarded days
Lost leaves
Blowing into lost corners
That we might hear the crunch
And smell the scent
Of that time when there was love
And we did not argue
Because we did not speak
The tree is bare
The leaves have fallen
The crunch and pungency of lost
Memories rise up
And we see that
We, too, must leave

Comments

joshua mertz

August 29, 2015

This is the fifth (or sixth?) in a series of divorce poems and the only one vaguely viable. Unlike sunsets, love, kittens and wonderment, divorce is simply not poetic. In fact, ingrown toenails, pustulant sores and the guillotine are more poetic than divorce.

Neil McKay

September 23, 2015

Very few of my divorce poems are fit for public consumption. But the writing of them is great therapy.

Neil McKay

September 23, 2015

This one is actually very well written.
Best line:
And we did not argue
Because we did not speak