Autumn Colours (i)

By Rhiannonw

Mon, 31 Oct 2016
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Green sugar factories now dismantled with approaching cold
revealing other colours in the leaves – orange and gold,
and red forms sometimes with the season's termination,
the summer’s beauty closing in resplendent culmination.        

Leaves’ substance stored away within the trunks or underground,        
to help kick-start the growth so cover will once more abound
when warmth returns – fruit growing business safely can resume
as leafy factories green again, abundant flowers bloom.

[IP: Autumn Colours –  death and regeneration​]

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Poem
Nature
Nature
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Rhiannon,

I could just imagine all the hard work that goes into Nature's life of a tree. No wonder it needs a Winter's rest. You told this story so well within a great poem for the  I P.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jenny. I was thinking of something else for the IP, and then this came together gradually. It is wonderful the arrangements for the tree surviving, and as you say maybe even benefitting from the rest. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Visual and informative, Rhiannon. I love the colours.

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Elsie. I saw this tree yesterday, and said to my husband, 'Oh, I should have brought my camera' 'I've got mine! ' he said, and fetched it out! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

Beautiful tree, and beautiful poem to go with it. I like the thought of the trees and their leaves as sugar factories.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jean. I'm still not getting many of the email notifications of comments left. The sugars then used in all sorts of life processes and construction! Rhiannon