My Fragile Friends--By Connie Marcum Wong--United States

My Fragile Friends

Please speak to me my lovely friend

With leaves stirred softly by the wind

Under enchanted autumn sky

Where your susurrate sounds drift by.

Sing soft melodies in choir

As leaves glow as if on fire.

I feel your abject dying pain

When wet and cold from chilling rain.

I remember spring at your birth,

How you brightened verdant earth.

And then in summer your soft shade

Where under your cool leaves I laid.

You always spoke or sang to me

While holding close your mother tree.

But now in autumn's silver sky

Soft spoken leaves whisper goodbye.

Connie Marcum Wong has been the Web Mistress of a private poetry forum Poetry for Thought since October 1999. Her poetry has been in many publications, anthologies, magazines, and e-zines over the years. She published her first poetry chapbook, Island Creations in 2005. In 2007, Heart Blossoms was published. In January 2010, an anthology, A Poetry Bridge to All Nations, was published by Lulu Enterprises, Inc.  Connie created the 'Constanza' poetry form in 2007 and Con-Verse form in 2010. She has resided with her husband in Hawaii since 1980.