Photo: flicker
autumn visits spring
outside my window
mockingbird sings lauds,
dove mourns,
a single leaf falls.
Written and linked to dVerse MTB where we are pleased to have Gayle (Bodhirose) share the exquisite form of Jisei, Japanese Death Poetry. Please stop by and join in.
Victoria C. Slotto, Author 
the leaves have started falling here as well and like each year it makes me feel a bit melancholic.. the passing of time.. love how you captured the moment with such few words and i too love the calmness of it
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I really should not be reading death poems.
I am already a mess today after learning about the death
of a friend. But this is beautiful in its own way,
and would honor any passing.
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absolutely gorgeous!! Your first line sets the stages, and then each of the following gives a different scene…and that single leaf caught my breath. Did I already say, “Absolutely gorgeous!!”?
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Very graphic!
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so lovely!
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Beautiful images you paint here, Victoria…i imagine dying as a leaf letting go.
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What a lovely serene thought. I know you have watched many leaves fall – in your work and in nature – they are all so unique and beautiful. this poem is perfection.
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A pearl of a poem – perfect.
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The autumn leaf falls with such finality and softness, very apt metaphor for death. Loved it.
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Great metaphor, what a lovely poem.
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In practice I have seldom seen just one leaf fall, but of course it’s that first leaf you notice, announcing autumn or old age or the end of a life.
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Very nicely done.. the single leaf image is so atmospheric.
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A single leaf falls… A single person dies… each is important!
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There is great calmness in this, Victoria. The single leaf letting go, oh so gently, makes for a meaningful jisei.
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To die in autumn, I think I would like that, so that overall the summers of my life outnumbered the winters. Nice take on the prompt. Peace, Linda
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The grace of that single leaf falling…I would like that too ~
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Just lovely. A tiny moment that opens up so much.
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Beautiful, Victoria!
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Love the mockingbird…birds somehow teach us how to live and die.
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Ah.. the first
Fall of Leave..
the first sign
of Spring..
cycle
of
life dies
on.. NOW…:)
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Perfect.
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WInks.. submitting
‘something’ always new..
NOW Living Art..
Whole
mE
sMILES..
FRIEND..
and who FEELS..
perhaps i will
be the first
to escape death
AS LIFE..
just a practice..
as you know
theRe are
NO LIMiTS
FOR ME
my friend..
again..
just ’cause
it hadn’t been
done before
ain’t Jack
or Jill..
it’s Fred..
haHE..;)
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Gorgeous!
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What an exquisite calmness in this, that single leaf falling works so well here..
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