Comments | ysabetwordsmith: Poem: "Leaves Upon the Water"

ysabetwordsmith

Poem: "Leaves Upon the Water"

Mar 22, 2017 17:57

This is the linkback poem from the March 7, 2017 Poetry Fishbowl. It was originally hosted by Dialecticdreamer. It is spillover from the December 6, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl, inspired by zianuray.

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zianuray March 22 2017, 23:43:58 UTC

So pretty! I can see the water and the leaves and the little eddies and swirls :) This may be my new meditation place.

Thank you! ysabetwordsmith March 23 2017, 00:42:15 UTC

I'm glad you enjoyed the imagery.

ext_3976757 March 24 2017, 12:54:43 UTC

Q. macrocarpa's relative, the live oak (which is sort of an umbrella term for oak that is (a) green all year and (b) tends towards watery habitats), is the secret of the USS Constitution.... the live oak doesn't make for very long boards, but it's very dense and springy and tolerates moisture as well after being cut as before... Old Ironsides was made by sandwiching short boards of live oak between traditional long boards of white oak (the usual English shipbuilding material. The result was a hull off which cannonballs literally bounced... and why she is still in commission to this day.

Wow! ysabetwordsmith March 24 2017, 19:06:37 UTC

I did not know that. How fascinating!

bright bouquets of autumn leaves cflute March 29 2017, 05:59:47 UTC

Love the colorful imagery! Reminds me of "Autumn Leaves", by Echo's Children. I was going to put a link to the lyrics in the comment, but I can't because it's not in the lyric index. I'll see if I can get that remedied.

There's a red, "To Be Continued" at the bottom, but the poem feels complete. What's up with that?

Re: bright bouquets of autumn leaves ysabetwordsmith March 29 2017, 10:12:59 UTC

It still has 5 verses left.

thnidu November 19 2017, 01:41:00 UTC

This poem reminds me strongly of one by Robert Louis Stevenson, in his A Child’s Garden of Verses. When I was a child I had an LP from a label called "Esoteric", consisting entirely of songs whose lyrics were those poems. I still know some of them by heart and occasionally sing them to myself or to others. This is one.

Where Go the Boats?

DARK brown is the river.
Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
  With trees on either hand.

Green leaves a-floating,
  Castles of the foam,
Boats of mine a-boating--
Where will all come home?

On goes the river
  And out past the mill,
Away down the valley,
  Away down the hill.

Away down the river,
  A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
  Shall bring my boats ashore

Wow! ysabetwordsmith November 19 2017, 03:27:57 UTC

What a beautiful song! :D I even found a video of it online.

I'll have to keep this in mind for Terramagne-America. It really fits the social atmosphere there -- the idea of sending toy boats downriver for someone else to enjoy. I could totally see Aidan and Alicia singing this with Saraphina.