In the Autumn of My Life
I walk
through flames
of autumn‘s sweet refrain
That break beneath
a weight too much
to bear
Where
I tread in solitude
and mourning there
Along a path
of maple trees
and scented air
As I recall
the life
that we once shared
And in these
my twilight hours
I see the beauty
of it all
In every
autumn leaf
that softly falls
~~~
In loving memory of my Father, Harold L. George
October 29th, 1927 – August 11th, 2003
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Submitted on June 14, 2020
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 408 |
Words | 80 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 2 |
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