The Last Green Day
Photo by Rémi Walle on Unsplash

The straining rays of the sun nourish

The last of the verdant leaves

For today Flora unfurls to flourish

And my joyous heart begins to grieve

I feel in my soul a dying glow

The emerald gleam beginning to fade

I long for the days when I did know

The comforting cool of a forest shade

The winter is a time of purity

The cleansing of a sleepy world

But I miss the imperfections of viridity

I miss the blooms of life unfurled

This is the last day of deep green

I stretch my olive limbs to the sky

For long this richness won’t be seen

The long days now seem to fly

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©Abigail Siegel 2019
['Abigail Siegel']
['Green', 'Poetry', 'Autumn', 'Poem', 'Winter']