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When the Autumn Leaves

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Radoxeald

Published: Oct 13, 2012

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The Equestrian Year
– Ponies with Sonata Arctica

[Click here for the accompanying song]
[Orchestral version]

When the Autumn Leaves

The wind brings signs of colder mornings,
Prolonging dusk surpasses the light,
Gone are those days:
Summertime of warmth and laughing,
Summer's time to slumber now
(For) some time…

Reaped the harvest, filled the stocks,
Found the scarves and boots from loft,
Gathered firewood to keep our hearths lit and lively.

You can see how the time of green is gone:
Its course is old and fading, losing its vividness.
Months of winter holding near,
We are watching the autumn leaves
Glowing bright in their gilded colors.

Season of work after the summer growth:
Memories of the vivid days still in mind.
Season of change before the winter rest:
Painted world before the snow-white veil.

Bid your farewells to migrating friends,
Send your greetings with the birdsongs;
Final notes carried in the wind,
Their echoes left in emptying fields.

Can you help Nature prepare with Her task?
Remains of summer burden are weighing down Her back.
Months of winter holding near,
We are running when the autumn leaves
Will be set free to join their last breeze.

Fest and race set to bypass the woods,
Easing the trees take off their summer dress.
Their maiden flight in fading autumn's colors,
In thousand shades of change…

Through the freeing foliage the path leads
Across the woodlands: trail in the gilded rain.
I hasten and catch up my friends
When we run through the fall of the autumn leaves…

Gone the birds, sent farewells as they sing
Final lullaby for the summer's rest…
We passed through the course together
Watching the raining woods of the autumn leaves.

LISTEN THIS SONG WITH THE POEM FOR MAXIMIZED EXPERIENCE [link]
THE SONG HAS ALSO AN ALTERNATIVE, ORCHESTRAL VERSION [link]

You’d think when you live in a country where you can’t get through the big city without passing a forest or two, you’d actually see when the autumn leaves start really falling. But nooo, the leaves have fallen already. I’m Laaate. Should have scheduled this for last week or earlier.

Yeah, it’s time for the autumn poem in “The Equestrian Year” series, this one about the “Running of the Leaves” with some more universal autumn themes. The song is Sonata Arctica’s mellow and melancholic “The Last Amazing Grays”.
It’ll be nicely contrasting the forthcoming spring poem which will obviously be about the Winter Wrap-Up.

This poem actually started out with the punny title, and a word play; replace “amazing grays” with “autumn leaves”, and keep going from there. I also nearly fell short of autumn metaphors due to how much words I had to add while evading repetition.

THE EQUESTRIAN YEAR – Ponies and Sonata Arctica
Serenity and Farewellwind [link]
When the Autumn Leaves [link]
A White Winter Day [link]
Wake the Spring [link]

My Little Pony ©
“Last Amazing Grays” © Sonata Arctica, from the album “The Days of Grays”. Written by Tony Kakko.
Song is used as a soundtrack for the lyrical content in terms of tribute, homage, parody and ponies.
The thumbnail is “Running of the Leaves” [link] by

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My MLP poetry, My Little Poems, can be found here [link]

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