Sunday 25 November 2012

Golden Autumn
A Walk in Vienna's Stadtpark


I cried over beautiful things
knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf
at the neck of the copper sunburned woman,
the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.

The northwest wind comes
and the yellow is torn full of holes,

new beautiful things come
in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind,
and the old things go, not one lasts.

Autumn Movement
by Carl Sandburg

Photographed
in Vienna's City Park
around noon on a splendid November day
17 November 2011
Images © by Merisi
R e p o s t

12 comments:

  1. Glorious captures of the season, Merisi, and the perfect words from Sandburg!! How gorgeous it is!! Enjoy what's left of your weekend and thanks for sharing the beauty!

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  2. Fantastic ! Very beautiful, a real poetry...
    Thank you Merisi

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  3. How very beautiful are your photos and the verse! Thank you for sharing this beauty! xx

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  4. Lana got a lot of bird pics on our walk today.

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  5. Lovely photos of autumn colours !
    The park is wonderful !
    Thank you for sharing this !
    Olympia

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  6. I agree with all the comments. This a perfect post-verse and images, especially the birds in flight.
    We really enjoyed the Stadtpark when we were there in May.

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  7. I would like to take a walk there.

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  8. Fragile, fleeting beauty, you capture it so well.

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  9. Beautiful, though oh so sad words, accompanied by perfect golden photos.

    No time no see.
    Good to be back!

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  10. How wonderful, Merisi! I would really enjoy taking a nice long walk there. Such beauty!

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  11. This series looks like a set of water colours. Beautiful.

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