Comment from Cindy Decker

Excellent

I found this poem enlighting and uplifting. The first line is awesome...trees absolved...
I love that 'nothing can trouble us anymore.'
Good luck in the contest.
Blessings and best wishes,
Cindy

 Comment Written 15-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 16-Oct-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your wonderful words of support for this poem. I am glad you enjoyed it and found it so peaceful. I wanted to use these nature images to create a sense of the new heaven and earth. estory

Comment from trimple

Excellent

Hello there, Estory

Your poem along with the author's notes below are a pleasure to read and ponder.

You have written a fine autumnal piece that's very visual and thought provoking as your leaves finally fall down to their winter beds and rest in peace...

Quite lovely.

kindest regards

trimple

 Comment Written 12-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 13-Oct-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your encouraging words of support. I am glad you enjoyed the piece and that the peace of nature came through in it. estory

reply by trimple on 13-Oct-2020

most welcome :)

Comment from rspoet

Excellent

Hello Estory,
I think you've succeeded in creating the pastoral feel
using the poetry of nature and the encompassing personification
with the trees waiting, the breeze reciting, and the butterflies kneeling,
as if all are quietly praying in the cathedral of life.
A very soothing poem for these hectic times.
Nicely done.
Robert

 Comment Written 11-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 12-Oct-2020

Thanks for the excellent review and your wonderful comments supporting the poem. The cathedral of life...I like the sound of that, and that certainly articulates what I was getting at in this piece; a religious experience of nature. estory

Comment from Tina Crute

Excellent

I did enjoy it. What I liked most were the subtle shifts from couplet to couplet. It's as if you gaze lovingly at nature so your words come out poetically as you describe different parts of nature. It is almost like I see you doing a two-step in the woods and turn to music, each time seeing a new beautiful thing. I like the consistent personification. I like that even the death of leaves is a peaceful event. This is beautiful.
Tina

 Comment Written 10-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 10-Oct-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your interesting comments and perspective on the poem. I'm glad the construction of it came off as contemplative. I wanted to use these images of nature to create this sense of peace, of harmony with the most natural elements of creation, and through that, to God. I am glad you enjoyed it. estory

reply by Tina Crute on 10-Oct-2020

Whatever style you would call this, you are good at it, to put it simply. If I had a six, this poem would have stolen it:)
Tina

Comment from Hanna Sander-Taube

Exceptional

Wow! I love this. I love how it has a rhythm to it, though it's not rhyming (but close enough). I like the last part; I like how it left me feel heartbroken. Good job!

 Comment Written 10-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 10-Oct-2020

Thanks again for the sixer and your wonderful encouraging comments estory

Comment from Dolly'sPoems

Excellent

You brought the changing season here as Autumn prepares the ground for winter and there is a kind of peace as the leaves are swept into the air with the breeze and the earth seems to rest after the harvest, much enjoyed, love Dolly x

 Comment Written 10-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 10-Oct-2020

Thanks for the excellent review and your wonderful comments supporting the poem. It seems the poem was able to convey this sense of contemplation of nature that leads to this moment of sublime peace. I am glad you enjoyed it estory

Comment from Ulla

Excellent

And I enjoyed it, estory, I enjoyed it a lot. It's a lovely written poem. It's so full of imagery and rhytmn. Just read the first stanza:
Trees absolved by last year's rain
Wait patiently for judgement day.
I loved it. It says it all. Ulla:)))

 Comment Written 09-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 10-Oct-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your wonderful comments supporting the poem. I am glad you enjoyed this pastoral romantic journey to peace and tranquility. Lord knows we need it now. estory

Comment from Bill Pinder

Excellent

I like this unique poem and appreciate your detailed notes about it. You expressed very well the interplay between the natural and spiritual. Just as trees can drop their leaves and rest in peace, we have the opportunity to rest in God's care As part of the normal process of life. Bill

 Comment Written 09-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 09-Oct-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your wonderful comments supporting the poem. I am glad that you got exactly what I was trying to say and you enjoyed it. I appreciate the comments estory

Comment from Mary Vigasin

Excellent

I enjoyed this writing. The images it gives the reader a moment of peace and solstice. I especially like the last stanza as a new way of looking at fall/winter as the trees slowly go to rest.
Well done and thank you for the image.

 Comment Written 09-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 09-Oct-2020

Thanks for the excellent review and your wonderful comments supporting the poem. I am glad you enjoyed it and that it created this sublime moment of peace for you. estory

Comment from Gloria ....

Exceptional

This is indeed a superb little pastoral, estory. I am taking great pleasure from the shorter poems this year, and yours is just lovely.

What remains is what is pure and simple.

Just beautiful.

Gloria

 Comment Written 08-Oct-2020

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reply by the author on 09-Oct-2020

Thanks again for all the support and your amazing flattering remarks. Yes this about the pure, the peaceful, and the simple. Nature stripped down to its spiritual elements. estory