PAD 16 - The Last ____

For today’s prompt, take the phrase “The Last (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles could include: “The Last Cookie,” “The Last Roll of Toilet Paper,” “The Lasting Impression,” “The Last Word,” and/or “The Last Starfighter.”

The Last Camellia

They fall like open hands

and float for a time

waterlily-like.

To the fish, below,

perhaps for a time

the camellias are lit up

pink setting suns.

They fall, so many,

so many open hands

and float

in their full color

so many setting suns

and then

they brown and sink and turn 

to muck

and cloud the water

and obscure the fish

and clog the system

with the end of Spring.

The last camellia falls

like an open hand

and floats in full color

under the bluest sky

ever.

It has been the most perfect day.