Rain on a grapevine leaf.

When a picture inspires a story.

She leans forward, looking over a mass of multicolour to the long drop below. The floor carpeted with others she knew, lying lifeless on the ground while she stays fixed to her home. Her root embedded as she holds on tightly, her edge curling in the wind as she admires the fall. Her tiny veins run through her surface, breathing in the fresh pine air of the new season as they trail from left to right. Her face the shade of new emerald diamonds as her face shines in the midday sun, sparking her potential to fly as the wind pushes her edges forward as she leans. Her colour is dampened with tear-drops of rain, the texture absorbing its drops as they slide down her face to her friends below, dripping a tear onto their brown faded edges.

She can see her friends below her, the ones that still live around her. They wave and whistle in the spring day weather and their colour transform from emerald to brown as the summer slides to autumn. She knows that she’ll be down there, that she’ll see her friends again but for now she lives up high, where the acorns grow and the others bloom, but secretly she awaits her adventure to fly away and to see where the wind takes her. 

                                                

Author's Note

Was wondering how my skills of writing manage when asked to describe a random picture with no premeditation and no idea of the picture chosen for me.

Reviews

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

such minute observation deserves accolades!
Bravo well done and thx for the view into the life of this leaf

[Icelanna]

Thank you x

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

(*_*)

[silfrstjrana]

nice story of a leaf lifes journey through the seasons and good use of aliteration throughout. have you tried structuring this into a poem at all ?

[Icelanna]

Thanks and um no not really. I very rarely do poetry x

[silfrstjrana]

to each their own lol good work anyway

[Icelanna]

Lol thank you x

[Lina Grey]

so simple, so intriguing. Inspiration can come from anywhere, I suppose. Interesting perspective, too :) ~em

[Icelanna]

Thank you x

[Lina Grey]

what an interesting concept, and what a creative piece you've pulled from it. At first I thought it was in the perspective of a rain-drop on a leaf, so the description was a nice surprise. A lovely whimsical write.

[Icelanna]

I enjoyed doing it, I would recommend doing it :)

[Lina Grey]

I think I'd like to do it. Would like to a pick a picture for me to use? I see your mum picked yours, and I think it'd be a bit more spontaneous to have someone else pick :)

[Icelanna]

Of course, I love this image, what with my twisted mind: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&tbo=d&biw=1024&bih=499&tbm=isch&tbnid=g75H34w9wVOIDM:&imgrefurl=http://accidentaldevotional.com/2012/03/27/im-tired-wor/&docid=XXoALGCNImkesM&imgurl=http://www.danheller.com/images/Europe/Slovenia/Kobarid/old-broken-door-bw-big.jpg&w=367&h=550&ei=WkvnUNTQKJPE4gTMr4GoDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=88&vpy=88&dur=113&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=110&ty=129&sig=110480756506147998702&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=103&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:88
Can't wait to read what you come up with :)
Love to you x

[Lina Grey]

Thanks :) I'll send you a rr when I get it up.

[Icelanna]

Thanks :) x

[Ashly Christen]

I LIKE THIS! GOOD JOB, I BET YOU GOT AN A ON YOUR ASSINMENT, I LIKE HOW WHAT YOU WROTE MATCHES UP PERFECTLY TO YOUR PICTURE

[Phillitup]

It is an interesting concept you chose to work with. Who chose the picture out for you?

[Icelanna]

Thanks, I asked my mother to go onto google, find a picture at random for me and she e-mailed me a link. I was expecting for it to be something more lively but it's a concept i've always wondered about, to see if you can get a good, even lengthy piece out of something you've never seen before and to just write about it.
Love to you x

[Phillitup]

Interesting. I think you did a lovely job with it!

[Icelanna]

Thank you :] x