By the River Poem, by Classicmister, at My poetic side

The frenzied city far away

Deserted for a calmer day

Now relish Devon’s autumn hues

That gild the trees and tint the views

Blissful hours beside the river

A sudden gust; the branches quiver

A seedpod falls to float downstream

Borne by the water keen and clean

Perhaps to reach a distant sea

Via wooded banks and verdant lee

But soon to meet its voyage’s end

As stranded at the river’s bend

There to set its tender roots

At springtime force its own green shoots

And so its destiny, not sea

But to become a towering tree

To flourish where the river flows

And shed in turn its embryos

That spiral downwards to the flow

Along the current fast and slow

Ever reaching for the sky

As seasons of the year pass by

Thriving on the river’s bank

With others of its sylvan rank

The spreading canopy soon shades

The springtime flowers in woodland glades

Thus Nature’s cycle is assured

And river gazers never bored

Comments +

BRIAN & ANGELA February 12th, 2017 08:28
WELCOME CLASSIC ~ THANKS FOR A VERY ELEGANT FIRST POEM ! Elegant in Structure (perfect rhyming couplets) and Subject ~ Devon and her perfect landscape and Trees. Devon on the most beautiful Counties in England and your poem of the tree cycle ~ from seed to tee again complements it ! Thanks for sharing ~ more please ! Please check my poems ~ Thanks BRIAN (UK)
- ClassicmisterFebruary 13th, 2017 04:53
  Thank you BRIANSODES for your encouraging comments ... I will post more poems shortly which I have penned in my favoured traditional style of rhyme and meter!
Philip February 12th, 2017 09:02
I love the progression of your poem. A good subject well written. I love Devon and know plenty of rivers to pass the time by.
Fay Slimm. February 12th, 2017 17:22
Ah - a first rate set of rhyming couplets with natural flow - - an engaging read and welcome to MPS.
- ClassicmisterFebruary 13th, 2017 04:59
  Thank you Fay Slimm ... I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope the " natural flow" was like the river the piece depicts! I have a few more traditional poems up my sleeve which I will post shortly.

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