Lavender

Sep 22, 2025 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

My Love, If You Could Only See the Leaves

My Love, if you could only see the leaves,
their blazing flesh from whence their mellow souls
defy surrendering our summer's eves,
deny that autumn's air grasps and controls

our days of sun, our hours in verdant glee.
Yet, here I stand, beneath the royal oak,
its radiance provoking every tree.
And I, though cast in gold, am bleak and broke.

Oh, Autumn! Hold your songs and striking hues!
Let summer linger so my love may stay.
Look to my heart, then gracefully refuse
to let the darkness claim the light of day.

My Love, our season has now come and gone.
The leaves are falling, and the light has drawn.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: Giving a sonnet another try. Always learning more each time. I am deeply, deeply in love with summer - never ready to surrender.

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Country/Region: United States

Favorite Poets: I tend to read Ted Kooser, Jim Harrison, Billy Collins, Paul Simon, Robert Frost. I like minimalist poetry, and poems reflecting on nature and Mother Earth.

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Comments

Geezer

7 months ago

Nice stufff...

this mirrors my thoughts on Summer and the warmer months of the year. Winter is to be despised through closed windows and left outside where it belongs, in paintings, and advertisements for tires on T.V. I think that your sonnet is done very well. ~ Geez.

Lavender

6 months 4 weeks ago

Hello, Geezer,

A small part of me loves the change of seasons, but I am never prepared to say so long to summer. Yes! Those winter-scene paintings are lovely, and the snow tires are a necessary evil! Ha!

Thank you for reading! Every once in a while I try to wrap my head around a sonnet.

Rula

7 months ago

Hello Lavender my dear friend

I can't remember the last time I have written or read a sonnet here. This is quite beautiful and inspiring in every way . The closing lines are just perfect

"My Love, our season has now come and gone.
The leaves are falling, and the light has drawn".

Thank you for sharing this beauty.

Lavender

6 months 4 weeks ago

Hello, My Friend!

Yep, I tend to do more free verse, but an attempt at such a disciplined structure is a nice challenge. Trying to continue learning.

Thank you for reading, and as always, for sharing your wisdom.

Sen99

6 months 4 weeks ago

Summers going ......... gone

Hello Lavender

Nice lyrical ode to seasons and emotions, quite musical rhymes, a pleasing expressive poem.

Look forward to more of your sonnets

Lavender

6 months 4 weeks ago

Hello, Sen,

One of my favorite poetry forms!

Thank you so much for reading!

Words Ablaze

6 months 4 weeks ago

I like the giving in at the…

I like the giving in at the end. The letting go, the graceful goodbye. Lovely.

Lavender

6 months 4 weeks ago

Hello, WA,

There is definitely a very melancholy feeling each year, and a bit hard to let go.

Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts!

Clentin

6 months 4 weeks ago

Liked the poem very much. I…

Liked the poem very much. I hope to try the sonnet form.

Especially like this stanza:

"Oh, Autumn! Hold your songs and striking hues!
Let summer linger so my love may stay.
Look to my heart, then gracefully refuse
to let the darkness claim the light of day."

Lavender

6 months 4 weeks ago

Hello, Clentin,

The love for summer, and its passing begs for a sonnet!

Thank you for reading!