{"id":98692,"date":"2012-10-27T01:19:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/98692\/poem-leaf-peepers\/"},"modified":"2012-10-27T01:19:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T05:19:52","slug":"poem-leaf-peepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/98692\/poem-leaf-peepers\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Leaf Peepers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0Angel Love’s line was “Autumn leaves swirl to the ground.”<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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LEAF PEEPERS<\/font><\/p>\n

PART ONE: THE DISCERNMENT<\/font><\/p>\n

As autumn leaves swirl to the ground,
\nthe air is fragrant, crisp and cool.
\nThere is not a single sound around;
\njust right for me and my mule Jewel. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

A lot of noise gets us both pretty wound,
\nso the falling leaves suit man and beast.
\nWhen they gently fall without a sound,
\nless is more, and the most is the least.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

We must admit we both get embarassed
\nwhen we see all the trees standing bare.
\nIf we stare they wonder who’s the fairest,
\nand they start to blush when people stare. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Jewel and I go where leaf fall is thicker.
\nThere we become clandestine leaf peepers.
\nWhile the trees undress, we hide and snicker.
\nI snap pictures when I see keepers.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Leaf peeping is not for everyone.
\nSome peeps are just not peeper peoples.
\nSome love to do it, for some it’s no fun.
\nFor many, leaf peepers give them the creeples.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

PART TWO: THE DENOUEMENT<\/font><\/p>\n

Falling leaves loudly announce to all
\na hint of winter is on the way.
\nIf it could only hear our quiet call:
\nto take the hint and stay away. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Leaves of Fall gently fall with no sound.
\n(Oh dear I wrote a similar line if you scroll down).
\nTwo is better to make your world go around;
\nwhich makes no sense in this poem but is a great line anyhow.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Now I’ve completely lost the meter of this write.
\nThe crisp leaves crunch beneath our feet
\nlike the skeletons in the Terminator<\/em> movie;
\nas many things do, but not when you eat a bowl of Cream of Wheat. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

There goes the ABAB rhyme too.
\nThis poem has gotten totally out of control.
\nSo what am I going to do?
\nSlap my muse silly, crawl into a hole.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The leering leaf peepers who left a leafy line or two: Angel Love (6). Diane.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Saturday Share poetry challenge. \u00a0Angel Love’s line was “Autumn leaves swirl to the ground.” LEAF PEEPERS PART ONE: THE DISCERNMENT As autumn leaves swirl to the ground, the air is fragrant, crisp and cool. There is not a single sound around; just right for me and my mule Jewel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}