<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568353" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Parallels Of Mortality In Autumn...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PARALLELS OF MORTALITY IN AUTUMN </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something epic, looms <br>over the dismal gray cold <br>of Autumn's<br>overwhelming utter sadness<br>in the vanquished heart; <br>that slows summer's combustible pace<br>to a stillness, <br>mirrored in the pensive faces <br>of those<br>awed at all the Autumn dead<br>that lay leaved at their feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something pale, plumes <br>above an Autumnal brush fire<br>doused, <br>by this mid November's rain; <br>vaporous gray clouds <br>pall bear this vestige <br>of the barren heart's<br>sloughed colors; <br>cobalt greens and cadmium yellows, <br>smoldering<br>to its bone white pallor of ash. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something tragic, dooms<br>the foliage in the winter wood, <br>as our extremities, withdrawn <br>to the aftermath<br>of the parboiled earthen heart's<br>bare bronchial trees; <br>some sulfuric sediment, embering<br>in the sallow air <br>succumbs, <br>to the smoke of an old war<br>we wage until our heroic defeat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something grand, illumined<br>in the long shadowed distance <br>of a purple sky's <br>dark shrouded clouds; <br>some monumental quest<br>overwhelming in loneliness, <br>the naked heart's <br>stark terror of the id, <br>forebodes <br>this whole dark epic of man<br>plodding out of the awesome gray mist. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Something lingering, resumes<br>with a longing, like for those we grieve<br>planted deep <br>in the earth <br>of the mourning heart, <br>some embered remembrance<br>of them, <br>like leaves in their green age<br>grows <br>as fond prayers of fair days<br>on such sparse ones like these.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something ominous, glooms<br>as the proud incongruous <br>crescent of the black crow, <br>perched upon a limb <br>in the sparse vermillion wood: <br>puce colored corpuscles of leaves<br>parallel grief<br>in the conquered heart's<br>coagulated wound<br>that eclipses <br>this metaphor of Autumn with a private loss. <br> <br>Something final, consumes <br>this naked sensuality of Autumn <br>with all things that end <br>in sorrow, <br>breaking the spirit <br>of the giving heart's <br>commiserated sage <br>numbed by loss, to pray alone <br>beneath the white washed stars, <br>not knowing if God <br>is among that brutal cold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something bittersweet, blooms <br>in the slender sapling, tossed <br>to Autumn's embered war <br>of attrition, <br>some surviving magi<br>in the sojourned heart's<br>tender flesh wound <br>of compassion <br>learns, through the barren casualty <br>of life, lost <br>to the slow death of the year. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> January 4, '92 John Thomas Tansey</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Copyright ©2007 John Thomas Tansey</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tansey">John Tansey</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=568353" data-title="Parallels Of Mortality In Autumn... de John Tansey" data-description="PARALLELS OF MORTALITY IN AUTUMN Something epic, looms over the dismal gray cold of Autumn's overwhelming utter sadness in the vanquished heart; that slows summer's combustible pace to a stillness, mirrored in the pensive faces of those aw..."></div> </div> </div>

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