<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484546" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Leaf</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">to a non-poet a leaf is just a leaf<br>and when it falls<br>on the ground, there is nothing but a <br>fall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but to us who claim this art<br>a leaf is not just a leaf<br>but it can be you or i<br>falling and when i reach the ground<br>you feel the heart of the leaf<br>beating</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for its falling, its failure as a leaf, <br>its surrender to a certain death<br>its claiming a portion of this earth<br>to rest and be part of this<br>world, it rots, and it speaks some line<br>before it rots</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a poem, a valediction on an anthill, <br>an eulogy of the other leaves that<br>fell before the great falling</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it can be a story of humanity written<br>on the lines of its face, it will have flesh<br>on its layers, some mouths on its<br>seams, and it will tell too</div><div style="margin:10px 0">about the tree where it comes from<br>how the clouds drifted so close to its stalk<br>how the sun kissed it on top of everything</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a leaf is a world. just as a poem is.<br>we live inside it. Through it. Even<br>outside it. Even in circles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we make understanding so complicated.<br>yet we are so simple as you see us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484546" data-title="A Leaf de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="to a non-poet a leaf is just a leaf and when it falls on the ground, there is nothing but a fall but to us who claim this art a leaf is not just a leaf but it can be you or i falling and when i reach the ground you feel the heart of the leaf bea..."></div> </div> </div>

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