Lyrics for “Bare Trees”  (Christopher Norton “Connections”, Grade 6)

 
Dead leaves of autumn
 Like mourners drift around them
Their branches weeping
 In grim cold, Sleeping
while the wind blows
its empty, eerie echoes
of life, locked and frozen,
of voices that saddened, murmur
Yesterday, the sun danced freely
Yesterday, their rich green sheltered
loveliness, loneliness.

 Memories that linger beneath their wintry pallor,
of sultry breezes
of stirring muses
While the wind blows
its empty, eerie echoes
of life, locked and frozen
of voices that saddened, murmur
Yesterday, the sun danced freely
Yesterday, their rich green sheltered
loveliness, loveliness, loneliness.
 
Janet Windeler Ryan
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