Poem: When the Leaves Stopped Singing

Creative Commons photo.

My latest five-line poem hit me as soon as I sat down tonight at the laptop and randomly (using Spotify’s Discover feature, so not that randomly) happened upon this song:

The album cover art inspired me.

When the Leaves Stopped Singing

what do you do when your wings don’t work?
delay, curl the branch of the rotting tree until
your feet decay, too, and watch as the leaves
learn to leap and float off into the horizon,
and you can only hope they remember you.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s