Now they are starting to fall -
Some as lightly as leaves in autumn,
Gold fading to brown,
As they drift gently away.
Others as sudden
As trees felled in the forest,
And the earth trembles
At the shock of their absence.
And the long snows of winter
Softly settle upon them all.

Joan Shewchun is a member of CFUW Burlington. Her poem is soon to be published by McMaster University in an anthology called Celebrating Poets over Seventy.

We remember...

Elsie Paget    1924 - 2010


Maureen Hardie    1934 - 2010


Carolee Bailey     1939 - 2010