I said ‘Hello!’ to a random leaf;
but, the random leaf ignored me;
I said hello to another leaf –
with the outcome just the same;
I said ‘Hello!’ to many leaves;
but none of them replied –
so, eventually,
I gave up saying hello to random leaves –
it was silly,
and it bored me
Well, the title says it all,
so I don’t have to pen a tale so tall;
and when you shout, ‘What?’
I answer the call,
because, in my dictionary
‘Pride’ comes before ‘Fall’.
It’s not a very good dictionary,
actually, it’s fictionary.
In Autumn,
a leaf fell;
in the Fall,
it also fell;
be it one or the other,
the result was the same:
the first to fall,
I have found,
presages a general
leaf fest upon the ground.
I saw a bee upon a leaf,
which gave me great belief
that a bee can be upon a leaf
and the leaf can bee
happy, too.
Edward lived every day
as if it was his first,
or his last;
green of experience in his youth
he learnt all that could
until he became a wizened old fellow.
One day,
whilst wearing a coat of brown, trimmed with a motley yellow,
he fell to the ground,
and just lay there.
Is it you,
or is it me,
who’s going to be
the last leaf on the tree?
Every other leaf has fallen,
we’ve been left behind;
and when one more leaf
has heard its calling;
there will only be
one last solitary leaf
upon the tree to find.
Today, I was almost concussed by a flying leaf;
it came at me so fast,
it was almost beyond belief;
but, by my ducking, it missed me,
as it passed it almost kissed me,
then it went on its way,
And that is the story of how
I was almost concussed by a flying leaf,
today.
I saw a green leaf falling
and it looked like a butterfly;
then I saw a butterfly
and it looked like a leaf,
a green one –
so, now, I’m feeling confused.
The last leaf on the tree,
that’s me;
the others left home,
forgot about me;
never write, never call –
once the tree was family,
once the tree was all.
I am the
last
leaf on the tree.
Hello, little leaf,
Have you lost your way?
Are you far from home,
in the breeze blown away?
Hello, little leaf,
is it you once again?
Or is it your leafy friend?
