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Fall Leaves Float

By Darrin Kramer

Abbott Press

Copyright © 2012 Darrin Kramer
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4582-0655-8

Contents

Author Introduction...........................xiAcknowledgments...............................xvBrittle Pages.................................1Secrets of This Life..........................2A Fathers Wish................................3Shallow Fields................................5Quiet Voices..................................6Candlelight Dinner............................7A Burning Match...............................9Cry of the People.............................10Shadow of Goodbye.............................11Ivory Towers..................................12Broken Hearts.................................13Fall Leaves Float.............................14Broken Cities.................................15Under Your Umbrella...........................17Crevices of Light.............................18Nazreen.......................................19Will One Sing for Me?.........................20Young and Weary...............................22My Butterfly People...........................23Leaves of My Life.............................24Listening to Silence..........................25Winding Roads.................................26Oxen Carry Heavy Loads........................27Thunder In The Corridor.......................28Caressing Tears...............................29Imprints on People............................30Waiting at the Crossroads.....................31A Moment of Silence...........................33Guide Us Away.................................34The Setting Sun...............................35Watched Time..................................36Cry of the Wind...............................37Time Passage..................................38Cascading Waterfalls..........................39Eternal Shores................................40The Last Palisades............................41Smiles for Tomorrow...........................42Happy Again...................................43I Walked Between The Wall.....................44My Journey Home...............................45Waiting Candles...............................47Behind Dark Veils.............................48A Bright Light................................50Worn Ribbons..................................51Trust.........................................53The Storm.....................................54Picture Albums................................56Ambiance......................................57The Music Plays...............................58The Dawning...................................59Another Memory................................60Behind Stone Walls............................61Between Fallen Trees..........................62Walk in the Rain..............................63To Harness Dreams.............................64Carousel of Life..............................65Enemies at the Gate...........................66Gazing Through a Window.......................67A Lost Reward.................................68Freedom's Gate................................69Two Paths Taken...............................70Facing Reality................................71Images........................................72Only One Lover................................73No Regrets....................................74A Special Moment..............................76Dear Mother...................................77Footsteps.....................................78The Sun.......................................79A Summer Day..................................80Alphabetical Index............................85About The Author..............................89

Chapter One

    Brittle Pages

    The antique desk
    holds lost names.
    A quill pen lonely
    for another letter.

    I smell old leather books.
    The words sit silent now,
    a writer forgotten for
    centuries, so long ago.

    Sitting in my study I
    blow away thick dust
    breathing life into old
    words, now new again.

    A mind alive, reading
    to remember days long lost.
    The paper, brown and brittle;
    feels and smells like no other.

    Old bells no longer ringing
    upon the modern mind.
    Old voices, dust of the past
    a whisper inside brittle pages.


    Secrets of This Life

    Secrets of this life
    strands—antique days.
    Our Studebaker cruises
    the town square. I stopped,
    the barbershop is closed.
    Shall we go to the diner?
    Mischief instead?
    My imagination?
    Like old weathered bridges,
    together, we were once strong.

    Raking leaves like memories,
    the basket is too much
    for me to carry now.
    My third leg, a cane,
    steadies a feeble stroll.

    The rocking chair on
    the front porch, misses
    you—as do I.
    Our secret hideouts.
    Our secret places,
    microscopes in the heart.

    Sadness, my loss of you,
    is the nucleus of
    flowing tears. Amour!
    Secrets of this life.


    A Fathers Wish

    A father's wish, in my loins you sleep
    safe from this earthly state.
    Awaken in my eyes; come and peep
    My life, my story to relate.

    "Hello my daughter, child I never bore.
    Where to start? So much to say.
    A creation real to me, a glimmer of what's in store.
    The price of your birth, I would pay.
    Your beauty hidden no longer
    remove the cover, life now flows
    transcending our joy, together even stronger.
    Rise up, get ready! Time now bestows.
    Oceans pierced, your entrancing eyes
    a sapphire gem so rare.
    Breathless, my surprise
    Enter my world. Look and stare."

    "Father, through your eyes
    continents, the world I see.
    My existence; my life I realize
    oh, for now I am free!
    I see our home and the pool.
    Are those my cats?"

    "Yes dear. That's Joey, Tabby and Spats."

    "Father, what a wonderful life ......