A Perfect Year
A two-season year
Spring and fall
Yin and yang
From buds
To bountiful flowers
And pale
To dark green leaves
Then the change
Just at the peak
Of perfection
As the days recede
And the glorious colors
Of fall appear
Reds and yellows
Orange and gold
And the leaves fall
A full cycle
To be reborn
In spring
Bruce Levine
Bruce Levine is a Pushcart Prize Poetry nominee, Spillwords Press Awards winner, and a Featured Writer in WestWard Quarterly. Over three hundred of his works are published on over twenty-five on-line journals including Ariel Chart, Spillwords, Literary Yard; in over seventy print books including Tipton Poetry Journal, Halcyon Days and Founder’s Favourites and his shows have been produced in New York and around the country. Visit him at www.brucelevine.com