Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SIC TRANSIT, by KATHARINE WILLIS


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SIC TRANSIT, by                    
First Line: As fall the sere leaves from the tree
Last Line: Seeds will find roots and flowers grow!
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Flowers; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares


As fall the sere leaves from the tree
In this season of transition,
Lashed by an unrelenting fate
To their destined end; with the weight
Of passioned months of fruition
Bearing them to earth, again to be
From dreaming and from burning free,

So, now, with summer's kiss grown cold
In my heart; in this season,
I, too, take winter's deathlike mask
And shed sere dreams for the stern task.
Yet I know -- past all reason --
Where dreams lie dead beneath the snow,
Seeds will find roots and flowers grow!





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