Today I’m reprinting a poem for you. “Sometimes the Beauty is in the Falling” was first published in Encore: Prize Poems 2018 by National Federation of State Poetry Societies (along with two of my other poems). Unfortunately, when I went to take the photo below the other day (all props stolen from nature on my walk), I realized that the publication somehow left off the last line of the poem. It’s kind of any important one. 😉 So I’m re-publishing it here now, in its complete form, for you to read. The photo has the full poem in the center, and you can click to enlarge, or you can scroll below to read the text printed here. I hope you enjoy, and I hope you’re having a lovely fall!
Sometimes the Beauty is in the Falling
The plant cell doesn’t know if
leaf or petal, tree or flower.
One can spend a whole life
maintaining
until some unspoken change signals:
tree leaf, autumn, go,
and all is pushing—
splendor in death.
© Annie Neugebauer, 2018
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