Seasons of Love Recalled

Is love so easy to forget?

Seasons of Love Recalled

When the softest summer rain

touches your skin

and the warm breeze

kisses your lips

will you not remember me?

Will you recall our

hearts entwined

when the balm of evening

soothes your day

and you float

on the calm of night's

dreams ?

When autumn tints

catch your eye

with burning browns

and red and yellow glows

will you not remember us?

When scattered leaves

swirl crisp around your feet,

crunching as you pass,

will you not give us a thought?

When winter winds

rage, rattling

in tempest temper

at the window frames,

will you not recall

the passion we shared,

in the eye of our storm?

And will you not recall

the warmth

I gave you

when December's

frozen hands

have you in their grip?

And when new life

bursts forth

and spring

bulbs explode

in multicoloured

joy,

will you not seek me out?

When lambing

bleats drift sad

across the fields

in April's sun,

will you not still miss me?

 

09/06/15

Author's Note

Reviews

[Robert]

Sometimes love is easy to forget usually more so for one than the other. Its true and sad. I absolutely love the line, "will you not see me out?" Still hope is alive with this line.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so much Richard.

[sereenaoutloud]

With all those memories and moments you created i doubt you are forgotten that easily my friend! :)
Great write!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Many thank Sereena.

[R Smith]

lovely poem John, I think with all that happens its unlikely she will forget you, one of your most poetically dreamy writes i'm thinking, superbly done :)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Richard.

[AaronFreitas]

I love the wording, love the topic and love everything about it. Great creativity :) I can definitely relate

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Glad you like it Aaron and many thank yous.

[andrew mitchell]

Yes I'm not one for music I have to kill it for everyone who uses this approach cos I can't absorb the write . Its about the write! not MTV. The excellent words play out their own tune silently but with power and intrigue. Lost love if sweet never leaves you!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I am the same really. Normally if I add music videos I don't put them on automatic play but someone taught me recently how to do it. But Willard said the same as you. Especially with pieces like this one which come on 'strong' from the start. So I will revert to letting the audience decide. Many thanks Andrew.

[Kelly Scheppers]

The melancholy of lost love, coupled with the connotations of seasons, just gave this a euphoric high for me. It speaks with a touch of English lore, and overwhelmingly melted my heart!

I adore it, John!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Dear Heart you slander my heritage! As a Celt and a Scottish one at that the thought of being English feels like Satan stealing my soul! lol!!! Did you know that when Scotland play any sport the English usually at least hope they win but the Scots and the Irish ALWAYS support the defeat of the English! Glad to have melted your lovely heart though (and I forgive you x). Many thanks Kelly

[sereenaoutloud]

lol..oh no no no that is sure a sin...trust me i grew up having to hear this so much. I was born in London but that is all i spent my childhood being raised in Scotland with my Scottish mum and my Irish aunty who i am named after .. but oh did they ever forget that i was not born a scot? Nope eheheh

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I spent a year in my pre teen year in hospital in England and on my return my brother and his friends gave me a hard time because I had a hint of an English accent lol!

[sereenaoutloud]

Lol oh yeh i can imagine that didnt go over too well ..hehehh
I get it now I've been in US so long that the Scottish brogue is more english now and when i call home i still get jibbed about it!! takes me like 5 mins though to fall right back in and when i get off the phone my kids dont understand me ..lol

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Yup do I know that lapse back into Glaswegian brogue!

[sereenaoutloud]

oh so you are a Glaswegian then?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I am but came to England a long time ago and have spent most of my life here. I am still passionately Scottish though.

[sereenaoutloud]

I know what you mean...it never leaves you!!

[Willard Wells]

Very well written work John. One of my favorites of your work. I have to kill the music on all your work since for me it distracts my focus on your words. Of course for some I need to see or hear the words for the connection if the piece does not stand on it's own. keep it up. nice job.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Many thanks Willard. I agree about the music as I always read first in silence. I only just discovered how to make it play automatically but I think I will revert to choice. Many thanks.

[Willard Wells]

I have a piece that is "The Doors" for intro music. If you read the piece as the intro plays it works perfect and then the words that follow seem to fit. I use it sometimes.

[wordman]

will you not remember me,a life long question my friend...loved the write,very creative

[John Alexander McFadyen]

A question to someone special in my life WM. Many thanks.

[fattycbreezy52]

Inexplicable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I would have to review.Well the phases and qualities in the process of love are seen analogous to the cycle of seasons.To be honest,me and a friend of mine(back at home) are currently working on a collaboration upon something like this where we are going to describe the stages of love with all the traits of a particular season,the Keatsian way.I will upload here once it's done:)
And this poem is marvellous.All the seasons have been described with such intense delicacies of love.
Love is perennial:)Obviously.Who needs anodyne when there are writers like you?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I don't know what to say FCB. This is such a splendid review and I am truly humbled. Many thanks. I look forward to reading your collaboration.