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Fall
Journals - Stormcrow
Written by Caribou Slim
Just as a sapless tree will split and decay, so an inflexible force will meet defeat. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground, while the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.
   
Monday, 02 November 2009 11:59
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welcome to the waning of the harvest moon
we're beginning our descent now
time runs faster as the dark grows longer
life measured out
in rabbit heartbeats
shivering in the snowshoe fields
tiny muscle
drumming
beating back the silent cold

 

 

november is wrapped in her traditional robes
of razorwire and wet autumn leaves
bone and rust
newts nest like coiled black drakes
in rotting logs
and the stags slice the fingers of fog
with their crowned antlers

 

 

this is the time 
to walk with the ghosts
you couldn't bury by halloween
to fall into the void
of distance
of love's memory 
and to remember
what whispers in fall 
sings in spring

and to listen

 

as the world

...sighs...

this too will pass

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Stormcrow
Re:Fall
Nov 19 2009 16:03:18
Loved this shot by watermirror - wanted to put it here, as it was skies like these that inspired this piece...



Fall Sky - by watermirror
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