poem : LEAVETAKING

photography by tauhhid

painting (in photo) by Ted Rand

Leavetaking

Vacation is over;
it's time to depart.
i must leave behind
(although it breaks my heart)

Tadpoles in the pond,
a can of eels,
a leaky rowboat,
abandoned car wheels;

For I'm packing only
necessities:
a month of sunsets
and two apple trees.

a poem by Eve Merriam

Copyright: 

Eve Merriam

from It Doesn't Always Have To Rhyme, by Eve Merriam

Copyright 1964

taken from Sound Of A Distant Drum by  Bill Martin Jr., California State Series, 

Copyright © 1967 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 

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