Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

autumn breezes 
 send dry leaves tumbling, but for
 one heavy rebel.

the last few leaves 
 tenaciously hang on
  into mid-winter.

the river weaves --
  just a gentle meander;
   a floating leaf roams.

the flowing river
 looks still as glass, until
  fallen leaf ripples.

dry and yellow,
 fall leaves hang on like a thick
  head of gray hair.

rainy autumn day:
 wet leaves drop heavily
  as a lazy mob.

a fallen leaf
 rides the river downstream, 
  twisting lazily.

such light green leaves
 for the end of summer: 
  doesn’t that tree know?

Posted on August 1, 2023 by B Gourley

willow leaves,
 slender and sinuous,
  hang to the river.

Posted on July 16, 2023 by B Gourley

a slow rain starts, 
 playing jumbo leaves: nature’s 
  percussion section